Re: SETUP: default to mintty

[Charles Wilson <cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm>]

On 7/25/2011 7:41 PM, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> On 25 July 2011 16:18, Andy Koppe wrote:
>> Problem: the shortcuts have the classic Cygwin icon whereas the
>> resulting terminal window has the mintty (née Konsole) icon. Worse, on
>> Windows 7 at least, the Cygwin icon also appears in the taskbar. It
>> needs to be the same icon throughout.
>>
>> That raises the obvious question: which one? I vote for mintty's, but
>> of course I'm biased. I don't think the classic Cygwin icon is fit for
>> purpose anymore, because of its jagged lines and because the black 'C'
>> is invisible on dark backgrounds.
> 
> Could this be the rise of Chuck's Hippo.ico? :)

Nah, I agree with Andy (and cgf). IMO, there's no need for the "C" icon
'branding'.  Currently, the Hippo icon is used with run2's "To X or Not
To X" demo (that is, urxvt if X is running, mintty otherwise):

/usr/bin/config-run2-example.sh contains this:

mkshortcut --desc="Cygwin Terminal" \
  --icon="/usr/bin/cygicons-0.dll" \
  --iconoffset=10 \
  --arguments="--display 127.0.0.1:0.0 ${XMLFILE}" \
  --name="CygShell" \
  /usr/bin/run2.exe

If people really want the big green C, it's in cygicons-0.dll with the
others.

--
Chuck