Re: Start menu shortcuts

2013-07-29 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 02/09/2009 20:59, Charles Wilson wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm not sure what to do about X-start-menu-icons. I think Yaakov has some ideas about how to approach this, but I don't know what they are. Anyhow, this is something I am willing to spend a bit of time on, if there was some vague

Re: Start menu shortcuts

2013-07-29 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 2013-07-29 08:22, Jon TURNEY wrote: Since this has reared it's ugly head again [1], rather than perpetuate X-start-menu-icons into x86_64, I'll suggest the following plan: 1) Obsolete X-start-menu-icons on x86 and replace it with a dummy empty package +1 2) Recognize that most of the

Re: Start menu shortcuts

2009-10-11 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 02/09/2009 20:59, Charles Wilson wrote: Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm not sure what to do about X-start-menu-icons. I think Yaakov has some ideas about how to approach this, but I don't know what they are. Anyhow, this is something I am willing to spend a bit of time on, if there was some vague

Re: Start menu shortcuts

2009-09-06 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
On 02/09/2009 14:59, Charles Wilson wrote: IMO, each (X) package should, in its own postinstall script, create the start menu shortcut it needs, using mkshortcut from cygutils. Well, perhaps GUI X packages. A lot of the X.Org apps are diagnostical in nature and hence are designed to be run

Re: Start menu shortcuts

2009-09-02 Thread Jon TURNEY
On 19/08/2009 01:05, Ken Brown wrote: On 8/18/2009 10:46 AM, Ken Brown wrote: Is there a policy about which packages are allowed to create start menu shortcuts? Recent discussion about run.exe on the main cygwin list makes me think it would be useful for the emacs-X11 package to create

Re: Start menu shortcuts

2009-09-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Jon TURNEY wrote: I'm not sure what to do about X-start-menu-icons. I think Yaakov has some ideas about how to approach this, but I don't know what they are. Anyhow, this is something I am willing to spend a bit of time on, if there was some vague consensus as to the direction we should

Start menu shortcuts

2009-08-18 Thread Ken Brown
Is there a policy about which packages are allowed to create start menu shortcuts? Recent discussion about run.exe on the main cygwin list makes me think it would be useful for the emacs-X11 package to create a shortcut for starting emacs under X. I would do this by putting the following

Re: Start menu shortcuts

2009-08-18 Thread Ken Brown
On 8/18/2009 10:46 AM, Ken Brown wrote: Is there a policy about which packages are allowed to create start menu shortcuts? Recent discussion about run.exe on the main cygwin list makes me think it would be useful for the emacs-X11 package to create a shortcut for starting emacs under X. I