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On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 06:54:12PM -0500, Yaakov wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:30:52 +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > Let's call the shortcuts "Cygwin Console" and "Cygwin GUI Terminal",
> > and then people will think it's obvious why there's two of them.
> 
> KISS: having two options *will* lead to confusion.  Whenever mintty
> becomes the default Cygwin shell, then the default Cygwin shortcuts
> should point to "mintty -", period.

I agree with this reasoning. This would grant preeminence to POSIX compliant 
applications. And people needing a DOS console behaviour could still run 
stuff from there, starting cygwin through a bat, true?

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