Description of the new feature / enhancement

As discussed in this thread, portable applications now have a specification which enables standalone executables to be installed and added to the PATH. However, it would also be nice if there was an option to allow start menu shortcuts to be created for these applications.

Proposed technical implementation details

The implementation would be pretty similar to how portable applications are added to the PATH, except instead of a symlink a shortcut will be created with a title as specified by the manifest, and placed at %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs for machine installations or %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs for user installations. It might be a good idea in order to avoid conflicts to place shortcuts in a subfolder such as ..\WinGet.