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The point of a portable app is to be able to take the settings with you wherever you go, which is directly not the point of a standard installation using AppData for settings as is right and just.
I don't see any point in catering to people who think it's somehow beneficial not list a program as installed... because some programs that aren't Sigil will sprinkle billions of registry values everywhere as a side effect of being installed.
Just install sensible programs like Sigil as normal. Or get a decent OS.
If every single boutique integration tool wanted its boutique manifest to be shipped inside the Sigil sources, there would soon he more third-party manifests than source code. These third-party tools need to either agree on some standard that developers can include once for everyone, or else they need to bite the bullet and do their own work.
e.g. the Linux ecosystem agreed to use XDG AppStream (*.metainfo.xml) and that's then processed by both flatpak and things like gnome software center to describe an application and generate summaries, previews, or search for/launch via GUI menu entries.
In one case, that's used for generating self-contained sandboxed installers built by and for the exclusive use of flatpak, in the other case it's used for the automatic indexing of thousands of software packages in a Linux distro and converting a command line package manager which only understands text names, into a fancy GUI package manager containing tons of metadata no Linux distro packaged would ever maintain themselves.
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