Bruce Cran sent the following at Thursday, February 03, 2011 6:26 AM >I'd like to suggest making the default state of the >desktop shortcut checkbox in setup.exe unchecked. This >would make it follow Microsoft's desktop guidelines at >http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511450.aspx . I don't know >about other people but it often irritates me that I need to uncheck it >each time because I don't like application icons on the desktop.
http://cygwin.com/ => http://cygwin.com/install.html => http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.setup.html#faq.setup.cli See "-n", "-d", and "-N". For what it is worth, I agree about the default. Or perhaps setup's default could depend on whether this is a new install and an update. (Sorry I cannot propose a patch.) - Barry Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID. -- 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
