Save and restore setup.exe window geometry attempt #2

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Fri May 22 18:32:00 GMT 2009


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:03:57PM -0400, Ralph Hempel wrote:
> Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>>(3) And as long as I've taken up space in your inbox...  <OT class="by
>>now, since it seems whether this will go into setup has already been
>>decided">I really don't see a need for setup remembering geometry.
>>When updating, I find the current default adequate.  The only time I
>>maximize is when I'm choosing new packages or possibly a new mirror.
>>It is not clear to me why anyone doing one of those take so long that
>>they need to change geometry so they can work on other things at the
>>same time.  Focus people! Multitasking may be efficient for computers,
>>but its not for humans.</OT>
>
>Using that argument, maybe we should consider stripping out all the UI
>code and making setup a command line progam, because that's the way I
>use it ;-)

DITTO!  Now we're getting somewhere.

cgf



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