On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
Attached is a patch to mkshortcut to allow it to take a [-d|--desc] DESC option that specifies the text of the description (tooltip text) for the shortcut. If -d|--desc is not specified, then the previous behavior of setting the description to the POSIX path to the application is used.
I have build tested and run tested the attached patch.
I need this patch for a replacement for the XFree86-bin-icons package. I already have the new package in hand, but I need this new functionality in order for the shortcuts to have meaningful names and descriptions.
I'll let Joshua make the call on this; if he says "go" then I'll put it in and release a new cygutils as quickly as I can.
Umm, don't the symbolic links in Cygwin use the description field for the
link contents?
Perhaps, but it doesn't matter. mkshortcut is for creating Windows-style shortcuts. And Windows-style shortcuts put "descriptions" in the desc field.
-- Chuck
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