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Re: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE
- From: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at yahoo dot com>
- To: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:29:18 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE
--- Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Better hold off on that patch, Nicholas -- it's opposite of the
> direction Robert wants to go. Setup should be , itself, as generic as
> possible, and all actions driven by external data.
>
> (granted, I haven't been reading this thread, so I might've missed
> something...like discussion of the mkshortcut tool in cygutils...)
>
>
> Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>
> > --- Jehan <nahor@bravobrava.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I forgot to attach the "X.ico" file. It's not the best in the world
> but
> >>I guess it will do (it's the same I sent you with the systray patch a
> >>while ago). It is to be installed in /usr/X11R6/bin (or you have to
> >>modify the script)
> >>
> >> Jehan
> >>
> >>
> >
> >>ATTACHMENT part 2 image/x-icon name=X.ico
> >>
> >
> > Jehan,
> >
> > If you search the archives, others have already made icons ready for
> you
> > use :). Meanwhile, I've been thinking about this and looking at the
> > setup.exe code. If no-one minds, I'm going to generate and submit a
> patch
> > that has setup.exe do all the shortcut stuff. Though your bat file is
> > still useful. I wonder why not just can all the dos stuff by having
> the
> > batch file call bash which then calls startxwin.sh? One file is
> *much*
> > easier to maintain then two. Anywho, let me know your thoughts on
> this..
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nicholas
> >
> > P.S. - Robert that goes for you too...
Chuck,
For crying out loud, 95% of the installers out there create shortcuts for
the user in the startmenu and on the desktop. Why is this such a bad
thing for setup.exe to do? What does external data have to do with the
price of potatos? Seriously, I'm proposing a "simple" solution which is
the norm for most installers. Where have I gone astray?
Cheers,
Nicholas
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