Harald Joerg wrote: > Linda Walsh writes: > >> [...] OTOH, at least the defaults are pretty sensible ... > > Pretty sensible, indeed. I love /cygdrive as just another example of a > pretty sensible default. --- Well, MS, put their unix in /unix. Wouldn't it make sense to put a cygwin subsystem in /cygwin?
It's not like it's really "a program" (belonging in "/prog"...). > >> ... (I can just hit ENTER), through the setup ... > > ...and the default buttons in the GUI are always in the same place on > the screen, so if I happen to use a mouse I can just click through, no > need to move the mouse. Not a big deal, maybe, but if so, why are so > many other installers missing it? ---- I *used* to "not get it" viz-a-vie the GUI, too. You just have to place your mouse over the cygwin window, then hit the enter key a bunch of times till you get to the program selection window. There, I admit, it is sized awfully small to see anything -- so I usually have to resize if I want anything other than the default selection... > >> ... -- EXCEPT...at the end -- how many times do I have to tell setup >> that I *STILL* don't want the icon on my desktop??! > > I eventually got around that one. > > I found that I do not want *any* icons on my desktop and switched them > off completely. There is an option in the "Sort symbols" function of > the desktop. --- Well...there are times when I grab all of the icons on my desktop in some frustrated moment, and drop them in a permanent link-to-folder, 'desktop-archive'... so if I ever want to see what I tossed off the DT... But I put icons on the desktop for items I currently want to work with -- sometimes it nice to have the ready access... -l -- 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