Right click PWA on Windows taskbar to see a list of PWAs

[LoganJFisher]

Problem Description

PWAs are great, but their utility is slightly hampered by the inability to group them together on my taskbar. For example, I have multiple email addresses, so as-is I would have to create separate PWAs for each and pin each one to my taskbar, which would look bar.

Proposed Solution

I would like if you could add right-click options to pinned PWAs, including options to open user-specified other PWAs instead.

For example, suppose I create a PWA for my primary email and pin that to the taskbar. Upon right-clicking it, I could then see options for that email as well as my other emails. Whichever one I click would then open, rather than necessarily the PWA for the primary email.

Thank you. 😄

[filips123]

Don't some email apps (at least Gmail and Outlook) already provide a way to switch accounts from within the app?

PWAs can already provide right-click actions/shortcuts, but they can't be changed by the user, and can only link to some URL in the same PWA. So, you would like to customize/add these shortcuts, and also have option to open them in another installed PWA? In this case, you would still have to install each of them separately, so each of them will have own start menu entry and separate icon in the taskbar (when they are opened at the same time).

However, I'm not sure how useful that is, considering that you can already search for them and open them from the start menu or pin them to the start menu.

[LoganJFisher]

Could PWAs be made to support wildcard URLs? So rather than https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0 it's actually just linked to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/* (with a default chosen by the user). That would allow for a single install and it wouldn't create different taskbar icons for each instance.

[filips123]

This is currently not possible, but you can check #411 for updates when it will be implemented.

[renatofrota]

Could PWAs be made to support wildcard URLs? So rather than https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0 it's actually just linked to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/* (with a default chosen by the user). That would allow for a single install and it wouldn't create different taskbar icons for each instance.

Doesn't it work by just leaving the start URL as suggested by Gmail's manifest.json ( https://mail.google.com/mail/?usp=installed_webapp)?

[filips123]

The default scope is actually https://mail.google.com/mail/, so it should probably work. And the start URL can already be overwritten when installing (or editing) the web app.