setup.exe development stalled?

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Sat Mar 27 02:55:00 GMT 2004


Thomas.Wolff@siemens.com wrote:
> 
> If there is going to be an update of setup.exe, I'd like to add
> the following remark:
> I absolutely dislike setup.exe's habit of suggesting to
> create a desktop item everytime I install anything.
> I run an icon-free desktop, I don't want any new icons there,
> and I don't want to have to click this off every time. It would
> be respectful of setup.exe to remember my choice.

You can sort of solve this by creating a shortcut to setup.exe with the
--no-desktop command line parameter, which causes that option to be
disabled by default.

Brian



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