[PATCH mintty] Add an XWin XDG menu entry

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Wed Jul 8 16:53:00 GMT 2015


On Wed, 2015-07-08 at 14:44 +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Convinced. According to 
> file:///C:/cygwin/usr/share/doc/cygport/manual.html#robo164 ,
> Categories and Additional_Fields parameters should be colon-separated, 
> so I would put:
>    make_desktop_entry mintty "Cygwin Terminal" utilities-terminal 
> "System:Terminal Emulator" "" "OnlyShowIn=X-Cygwin"

This in incorrect.  Please include the patch *exactly* as sent.

> -- about the icon, shouldn't mintty's own icon be used here? How would 
> it be passed to cygport, does it need to be installed first?

If anything, I'd take the /Cygwin-Terminal.ico and use *that* as the
mintty icon in this context.  Would you like a patch?

--
Yaakov




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