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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/