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Re: cygutils - mkshortcut - Patch for --desc option for description/tooltip text - Needed for new Cygwin/X package


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.

Harold

Umm, don't the symbolic links in Cygwin use the description field for the link contents? Also, why was this sent to cygwin-apps -- doesn't it fit better with the main Cygwin list? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!

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