Bug in startxwin.bat after installing with setup.exe in win98SE

[Jehan]

Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> Because scripts are unreliable.  Because users are stupid.  Because people
> like to have a GUI checkbox over a text console prompting them for input. 
> You are admirable for defending your script, but the fact of the matter is
> that people prefer the graphical setup.  Why?  Well look at the the
> various linuxes out there, they are, for the most part, migrating to a
> graphical install.  They don't rely on crummy shell scripts any more.  

Hmm, I'm not sure about that. A lot of application uses GUI as a front 
end to script and command line tools.

I
> think you are missing the original point, Slashdot did an article on
> Cygwin/XFree86, not Cygwin/OpenSSH, not Cygwin/RXVT.  The point is that X
> is a special interface that deserves a special shortcut that is made by
> setup.exe.  

So before Slashdot, XWin didn't deserve the shortcut? And for what I saw 
in the cygwin mailing list, some people want rxvt to be the default. 
Currently, I have two shortcuts, one for rxvt and one for bash. If the 
xlauncher comes, we will want a shortcut for it because people won't 
have to configure X by hand, they will have a GUI.


> Until we have a data-driven database system which can interact
> with setup.exe and respond to user input, this is probably the best bet. 

I fear I disagree. We have a way to creat shortcuts already. It's not 
pretty but it works. This way is also flexible because it doesn't 
prevent other applications to do the same.
So instead of creating another way (even if it's simple) to create 
shortcuts, that isn't even flexible, I would say the best bet is to 
focus on a data-driven GUI.


> But realize that I'm not trying to tell people what to do, I'm just
> strongly voicing my opinion.

Good because you can't! Sorry! *grin*.

	Jehan