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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 22:51:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Alex Goldman <alex DOT gman AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: suggestions for cygwin developers
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Alex Goldman wrote:

> When Cygwin gets set up, it would be more user-friendly if it placed
> two icons on the desktop:
> one should start maximized Rxvt; another should start X with a couple
> of xterms or whatever.
> First-time users might think that the MS-DOS terminal is as good as it
> gets, and this is not good for Cygwin. Others still have to figure out
> how to start Rxvt automatically and how to configure it to look
> pretty.

This doesn't have to be done at the level of the Cygwin setup.  You could
easily write a package (or a set of packages) that would place such icons
on the desktop (see, for example, the gold-star-winning "chere" package).

> Also, it would be neat to be able to keep Cygwin up-to-date automatically.

Just run setup.exe regularly, and it will pick up the latest packages.  Of
course, you may need to reboot if you do this concurrently with using
Cygwin processes, so this will need to be thought through very well.

The main point is: Cygwin is a volunteer effort.  If you feel that some
feature would be beneficial, consider contributing it.  If it's done well,
others will like it, and it could be included into the official set of
packages.  Simply suggesting a feature rarely results in it being
contributed by someone else.
	Igor
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