Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Original-Recipient: From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" To: Subject: General comments... Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:56:42 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam Hello. Now it has been a while since I installed cygwin (all of it!) on my PII/450Mhz Compaq Presario (Model 5670 w 256MB RAM/60G HD). This is three years old hardware and I'm finding more and more things that feels slow, so it's no speed demon any longer. There is one thing that I find almost annoying with the setup utility. At a certain point it feels VERY slow; when the list of packages to download/install is about to open up. This may take anything from a little while to ages to open (No, I haven't measured time so far). As there is NO progress display it feels as a very long delay. Please, consider adding a progress display of some sort. Also: I feel that I have to verify settings all the time. I download packages into a local directory(1), then install them from there: I have to run the utility twice AND click the NEXT button "a hundred times" ;-) My suggesttion: Add an option to "use last settings" for the selected operation (download or install), having it GO at once. One more thing: As I'm running the download through an ISDN line (charge based on time up), it is vital for me to be able to disconnect ASAP. Minimal support for handling this in a good manner would be to display information regarding whether the utility needs the line to be up or not. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden (1) To be able to REINSTALL all of it, fresh - in case of trouble, whatever "sort of" it might be. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/