rfe: seamless windows integration

[Brian E. Gallew]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> However, I don't see why this would require any setup changes.  A
> postinstall script should be able to set up icons, etc.  I can't decide
> if the thought of a folder filled with scores of icons for X programs is
> intriguing or frightening, though.

First, create a folder in the Programs section of your Start Menu named 
"Cygwin-XFree86".  Then, the following script will produce working 
links, BUT it's not what you want.

cd /usr/X11R6/bin
for d in *.exe
do
  mkshortcut -P --icon=/cygwin.ico \
   --arguments="$d -display :0" \
   --name=Cygwin-XFree86/$(basename $d .exe) \
   --workingdir=$HOME /usr/X11R6/bin/run.exe
done

This skips any shell scripts, which is (usually) what you want. 
Unfortunately, there are a lot of programs in that directory which 
really want a terminal (e.g. xdpyinfo).  Further, there are programs in 
there that don't belong here like this (e.g. Xwin.exe).

So, to do this *right*, we'd need a couple things:
1) A canonical hierarchy structure (e.g. Start Menu/Program/Cygwin/XFree86)
2) A script which defines two shortcut functions (or more?), one like 
the above shortcut for "real" X11 programs, and one which appends 
"|xterm -e more" to the commands
3) Someone to take the time to carefully pick and choose which kind of 
shortcut (if any!) gets generated for each application.

The up side of this is, if implemented, we could then ask other package 
maintainers to add an appropriate shortcut for their X-enabled 
application (e.g. emacs, vim).  I wouldn't ask that of the GNOME or KDE 
port, though, as they already have menu setups that work.