Why isn't there an inbuilt way to generate a desktop launching Unity project shortcut?

Unity Engine
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Just wondering, thought this would be a handy feature and save quite a bit of developers time over the years.

Or is there and I’ve just missed it all this time?

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I would try creating a shortcut or bat file which opens the editor using the -projectPath command line option to specify the specific project. I suspect that will do what you want. Though even if it works, a cleaner way of creating such a shortcut would be a nice feature.

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Technically, you can just click on the scene myScene.unity and it will trigger Unity launcher.
The only problem is, if you have more than one Unity installed, or have multiple projects in different Unity versions, It may launch none desired Unity version.
So this approach seems to be suitable, for the single selected Unity version.

Or going back to command line approach, maybe the only resealable solution.

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What about launching via UnityHub shortcut command line to UnityHub to open project in correct version of unity?

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What problem you try to solve?
Unity hub opens nearly instantaneously anyway.
It gives you all basics information and options for projects, that are needed.

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I don’t want basic information about projects, I want to open my project without having to first opening the launcher, then finding my project, then clicking to open the project, then finding the launcher in order to close it again. It’s a super annoying workflow. Unreal Engine doesn’t have this problem.

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How hard would it be to have a .unity project file type that opens with the Unity Hub/Unity Editor?

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It already does that, but as Antypodish said, it will probably open in a random version of Unity if you have multiple versions installed.

You can achieve what you want by creating a shortcut to desired Unity.exe, opening the shortcut properties and adding “-projectpath <PATH_TO_PROJECT>” argument.

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Found it, just search for the scene in ur project folder, u will find the scene being a unity.exe, just create a shortcut which u bring to desktop and rename it if u want, when u open wit the unity editor it will open instantly

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On Windows, you can:

  • create a new file “unityShortcut.cmd”, in this file put this content:
    start "" "Absolute\Path\To\Your\Editor\Unity.exe" -projectPath "Absolute\Path\To\Your\Project"
  • then you can just double click your shortcut
  • you can do something similar on Mac & Linux with a .sh file
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