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From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <BBuchbinder AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "'Bruce Cran'" <bruce AT cran DOT org DOT uk>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:25:01 -0500
Subject: RE: Default state of the desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe
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Bruce Cran sent the following at Thursday, February 03, 2011 6:26 AM
>I'd like to suggest making the default state of the
>desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe unchecked. This
>would make it follow Microsoft's desktop guidelines at
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511450.aspx . I don't know
>about other people but it often irritates me that I need to uncheck it
>each time because I don't like application icons on the desktop.

http://cygwin.com/
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http://cygwin.com/install.html
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http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.cli

See "-n", "-d", and "-N".

For what it is worth, I agree about the default.  Or perhaps setup's
default could depend on whether this is a new install and an update.
(Sorry I cannot propose a patch.)

- Barry
  Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.


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