X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:42:39 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to uninstall Cygwin/X (only) Message-ID: <20100409084239.GA1308@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4BBE2F37.1060303@cygwin.com> <83y6gx330e.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> <83tyrl32lq.fsf@torus.sehlabs.com> <4BBE886F.409@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4BBE99F4.2080405@gmail.com> <20100409053117.GA22162@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Apr 9 09:35, Matthias Andree wrote: > Am 09.04.2010, 07:31 Uhr, schrieb Christopher Faylor: > > >On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 04:07:32AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > >>On 09/04/2010 02:52, Charles Wilson wrote: > >> > >>>Hmm. I wonder if a quick-n-dirty way to "fix" this is to add a > >>>right-click context menu to the spinner, so that you can > >>>directly choose > >>>"Uninstall" without traversing the entire cycle. Rinse and repeat on > >>>all the items you want to remove... > >> > >> I am writing a patch to add a right-click context menu to the > >>spinner :) > >>more news in the next couple of days. > > > >As long as you're doing that, how about just getting rid of the spinner > >entirely? IMO, it's an unusual construct. It would probably be better > >to have a pull-down box or something. > > While we're at (m)uttering desires, I'd like to propose - which may > be more work - keyboard usability. It'd really be nice if I could > just hit [-] (uninstall), [+] (install or keep), and trigger > reinstall (possibly with r or !). Let's not force users to even more > rat-moving and rat-ear-stroking. Given that the entire chooser has no keyboard support at all so far, that would be a lot of work. So far you can't even select a package for further action. But I'm sure everybody would applaud the person who adds keyboard support to the chooser. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple