X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C76A052.3080708@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:11:46 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mintty start menu icon References: <4C768951.5010403@freesbee.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 08/26/2010 11:07 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > 2010/8/26 Vincent Rivière: >> It would be nice if the mintty package could honor the unchecking of "Add >> icon to Start Menu" > > Yes, that would be nice, but unfortunately setup.exe's design doesn't > allow for this. The start menu icon is created by the mintty > postinstall script, which is run before the user even gets to the "Add > icon to Start Menu" option. Same issue for other packages that create > start menu entries. Well, it sort of does - if you create two packages, mintty (no shortcut menu created) and mintty-shortcut (depends on mintty, and additionally creates the shortcut), then the user can choose whether the shortcut will exist by which package they choose to install. But that's not saying it's the best solution. Another thought - now that we are patching setup.exe to set env-vars that inform the postinstall scripts about aspects of the installation (such as for all users or just me), setup.exe could also be patched to tell postinstall scripts whether start menu modifications are desired. However, this would require some major surgery, since the current implementation runs postinstall scripts prior to the screen where it asks if a start menu icon should exist. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- 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