On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 22:36 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about
> creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from
> showing up every time you run setup.exe?
If the shortcuts exist already, don't ask, or defaul
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:42:06PM +1000, Mikel Ward wrote:
>On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 22:36 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about
>> creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from
>> showing up every time you run
> >If the shortcuts exist already, don't ask, or default to unchecked.
> >
> >If the user said no last time, default to unchecked.
>
> Most of the above don't seem like a change in behavior.
Oh, I thought it defaulted to yes every time? At least in 1.5.
Mikel
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On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about
> creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from
> showing up every time you run setup.exe? Should it only be asked on the
> very first installation (easy) o
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about
> creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from
> showing up every time you run setup.exe? Should it only be asked on the
> very first installation (easy) or should there be a "D
The first problem with the current behavior is that it's brittle in the
face of customization. If I rename, move, or delete a Cygwin icon,
setup.exe thinks it should be helpful and create one for me. setup.exe
requires education, so that it will come to realize that maybe the human
is not an
Warren Young wrote:
> I suggest adding a tag to setup.hint whose value is an icon title, to be
> used by setup-1.7.exe only. When given, it requests that setup.exe
> offer to create an icon for that program.
#1. WAY too simplistic. How does setup know the appropriate options that
the target app
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 04:54:44PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>People have complained about the final setup.exe page which asks about
>>creating an icon, etc. What's the best way to stop that page from
>>showing up every time you run setup.exe? Should it only be asked on
Christopher Faylor wrote:
Also, as far as I can tell, there is no remembering of anything going on
now. The buttons are off by default. Is that right or am I missing
something in the complicated setup code?
That's fine if setup.exe only directly creates the cmd.exe based shell
icons. It bre
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:31:04PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Also, as far as I can tell, there is no remembering of anything going
>>on now. The buttons are off by default. Is that right or am I missing
>>something in the complicated setup code?
>
>That's fine if set
Charles Wilson wrote:
I suggest adding a tag to setup.hint whose value is an icon title
#1. WAY too simplistic.
For some cases, sure. It suffices for many others, though, probably
even most others. If you want to add more tags to the design, fine, but
for v1.0, these other options shoul
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Also, as far as I can tell, there is no remembering of anything going on
> now. The buttons are off by default. Is that right or am I missing
> something in the complicated setup code?
- From what I've seen, the buttons a
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:45:07 -0400, ABCD wrote:
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> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> Also, as far as I can tell, there is no remembering of anything going
on
>> now. The buttons are off by default. Is that right or am I missing
>> something
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