Suggestion: [setup] Add an option to allow user to add "Open Cygwin Terminal Here" to Right-click menu

[Jon Turney]

On 13/02/2024 20:30, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2024 at 05:21, Yang Yu Lin via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>>
>> It would be convenient for users to open specific folder in terminal by just right-click it, like Git Bash and Windows Terminal.
>>
[...]
> 
> Yes, please, it would be cool to have this as DEFAULT in the MS
> Explorer right-click context menu for dirs

Yeah, this seems like a good idea. Someone should do that. :)


I think the place to start might be with improving the integration of 
the 'chere' package, so it has a postinstall/preremove script to 
create/remove a context menu entry to start bash under mintty.

(I don't understand quite why chere can't give you "the shell you 
currently have configured in /etc/passwd" (i.e. 'mintty -') rather than 
having all of them as options...)


Then the  next step would probably be adding the option/checkbox to 
setup and exposing it to that script via CYGWIN_SETUP_OPTIONS.


[1] https://cygwin.com/packaging-package-files.html