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

[Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> 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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