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Re: cygutils - mkshortcut - Patch for --desc option for description/tooltip text - Needed for new Cygwin/X package
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 13:55:29 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: cygutils - mkshortcut - Patch for --desc option for description/tooltip text - Needed for new Cygwin/X package
- References: <404F6327.8090801@msu.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Attached is a patch to mkshortcut to allow it to take a [-d|--desc] DESC
option that specifies the text of the description (tooltip text) for the
shortcut. If -d|--desc is not specified, then the previous behavior of
setting the description to the POSIX path to the application is used.
I have build tested and run tested the attached patch.
I need this patch for a replacement for the XFree86-bin-icons package.
I already have the new package in hand, but I need this new
functionality in order for the shortcuts to have meaningful names and
descriptions.
Harold
Umm, don't the symbolic links in Cygwin use the description field for the
link contents? Also, why was this sent to cygwin-apps -- doesn't it fit
better with the main Cygwin list?
Igor
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