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
