mintty start menu icon
Hello. I do not want a Cygwin folder in my start menu. When I run the Cygwin setup, I always uncheck Add icon to Start Menu on the last page. Despite of that, every time the mintty package is updated, its icon appears again in the start menu. It would be nice if the mintty package could honor the unchecking of Add icon to Start Menu, just like the legacy Cygwin command prompt. -- Vincent Rivière -- 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
Re: mintty start menu icon
2010/8/26 Vincent Rivière vincent.rivi...@freesbee.fr: Hello. I do not want a Cygwin folder in my start menu. When I run the Cygwin setup, I always uncheck Add icon to Start Menu on the last page. Despite of that, every time the mintty package is updated, its icon appears again in the start menu. It would be nice if the mintty package could honor the unchecking of Add icon to Start Menu, just like the legacy Cygwin command prompt. -- Vincent Rivière Wouldn't it better if the mintty installer asked on its own if this shortcut were needed on new installs? I find that I like mintty much better than the stock window and I end up liking the mintty shortcut and unchecking the add icons in the installer. Rance -- 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
Re: mintty start menu icon
2010/8/26 Vincent Rivière: I do not want a Cygwin folder in my start menu. When I run the Cygwin setup, I always uncheck Add icon to Start Menu on the last page. Despite of that, every time the mintty package is updated, its icon appears again in the start menu. 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. Andy -- 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
Re: mintty start menu icon
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 ebl...@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
Re: mintty start menu icon
On 8/26/2010 1:07 PM, 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. Would it be reasonable to move that dialog (sans the Finished wording, of course) earlier in the process -- and then export the value of those checkboxes via env vars like your other patch? -- Chuck -- 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
Re: mintty start menu icon
On 26 August 2010 17:02, Rance Hall wrote: Wouldn't it better if the mintty installer asked on its own if this shortcut were needed on new installs? I guess it would be possible for postinstall scripts to somehow throw up a message box before creating shortcuts, but I suspect that would cause much more annoyance than yet another entry start menu entry that's easily deleted or ignored. Also, that approach just wouldn't scale to multiple packages. Andy -- 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
Re: mintty start menu icon
On 26 August 2010 18:13, Charles Wilson wrote: On 8/26/2010 1:07 PM, 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. Would it be reasonable to move that dialog (sans the Finished wording, of course) earlier in the process -- and then export the value of those checkboxes via env vars like your other patch? Yes, I think that would make sense, but I'm sure setup.exe would have some interesting complications up its sleeve. We'd also need a new final page. Perhaps the postinstall results page could be adapted to serve in that role. Quite a lot of work though for what's not exactly a critical issue. Andy -- 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
Re: mintty start menu icon
Andy Koppe wrote: Quite a lot of work though for what's not exactly a critical issue. I agree. But I wonder why what works for the standard console icon does not work for the mintty icon. Probably a special case. -- Vincent Rivière -- 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
Re: mintty start menu icon
On 8/26/2010 1:35 PM, Vincent Rivière wrote: Andy Koppe wrote: Quite a lot of work though for what's not exactly a critical issue. I agree. But I wonder why what works for the standard console icon does not work for the mintty icon. Probably a special case. Um, http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-08/msg00859.html. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _ A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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
