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Re: setup.exe development stalled?
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: Cygwin Apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 03:56:22 -0800
- Subject: Re: setup.exe development stalled?
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <200403251434.i2PEYKKY025854@ns-srv-2.bln1.siemens.de>
Thomas.Wolff@siemens.com wrote:
>
> If there is going to be an update of setup.exe, I'd like to add
> the following remark:
> I absolutely dislike setup.exe's habit of suggesting to
> create a desktop item everytime I install anything.
> I run an icon-free desktop, I don't want any new icons there,
> and I don't want to have to click this off every time. It would
> be respectful of setup.exe to remember my choice.
You can sort of solve this by creating a shortcut to setup.exe with the
--no-desktop command line parameter, which causes that option to be
disabled by default.
Brian