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 Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20040305180655.02239b90@coolbrew.com> X-Sender: (Unverified) Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 18:16:28 -0600 To: From: Greg McCrory Subject: RE: Cywin Setup application not able to maximise In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 3/5/2004 04:08 PM, you wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > > >Michael John > > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 4:51 PM > > Subject: Cywin Setup application not able to maximise > > > > > > Hi, > > > > i'm using Cygwin for more than half a yeah now. Admittedly, i > > find it very > > impractical not being allowed to resize, respectively maximize, the setup > > application, because the tree of packages to install is much to > > large for the > > window. > > > > Is this intended? Differently asked, is there a projected time to > > change this > > behaviour? > > > >A search of the archives will prove instructive > > Ken Actually, a search of the archives will prove futile, as the standard response is, "if you want a better setup, code it yourself." Since most of the people asking this question are a bit green in their programming skills, and in fact may be complete neophytes, the response to "code it yourself" is somewhat cold. How about a kinder, gentler response like, "we are trying to find someone with the skill and will to re-code the setup program to provide for window resizing, but as of yet have no takers." GMc -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/