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: <4050039C.5010205@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:13:48 -0500 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040120 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygutils - mkshortcut - Patch for --desc option for description/tooltip text - Needed for new Cygwin/X package References: <404F6327.8090801@msu.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote: > >> Attached is a patch to mkshortcut to allow it to take a [-d|--desc] DESC >> option that specifies the text of the description (tooltip text) for the >> shortcut. If -d|--desc is not specified, then the previous behavior of >> setting the description to the POSIX path to the application is used. >> >> I have build tested and run tested the attached patch. >> >> I need this patch for a replacement for the XFree86-bin-icons package. >> I already have the new package in hand, but I need this new >> functionality in order for the shortcuts to have meaningful names and >> descriptions. I'll let Joshua make the call on this; if he says "go" then I'll put it in and release a new cygutils as quickly as I can. > > Umm, don't the symbolic links in Cygwin use the description field for the > link contents? Perhaps, but it doesn't matter. mkshortcut is for creating Windows-style shortcuts. And Windows-style shortcuts put "descriptions" in the desc field. -- Chuck -- 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/