From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23451 invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2011 19:37:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 23440 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Jul 2011 19:37:13 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pz0-f52.google.com (HELO mail-pz0-f52.google.com) (209.85.210.52) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:36:59 +0000 Received: by pzd13 with SMTP id 13so1350307pzd.11 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:36:59 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.51.197 with SMTP id m5mr2621195pbo.503.1311709018993; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:36:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.66.35 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:36:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110726081717.GT29727@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20110725091106.GN29727@calimero.vinschen.de> <20110726081717.GT29727@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:37:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: SETUP: default to mintty From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-07/txt/msg00127.txt.bz2 On 26 July 2011 09:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 25 21:18, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 25 July 2011 12:49, Andy Koppe wrote: >> > On 25 July 2011 10:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> [This time *with* patch...] >> >> >> >> Hi guys, >> >> >> >> we discussed this back in May already, but somehow we didn't get a >> >> final result. =C2=A0The thread was kind of confusing, so I re-open a = new >> >> one now. >> >> >> >> We talked about using mintty as our default shell. =C2=A0I created a = setup >> >> patch which I attached to this mail again. =C2=A0Instead of "Cygwin B= ash >> >> Shell" in the start menu and "Cygwin" on the desktop, it creates >> >> "Cygwin Terminal" shortcuts in both of them. >> >> >> >> Is that ok? >> > >> > If I remember correctly, we were going to go with just "Cygwin" on the >> > desktop. I'll have a proper look later. >> >> Problem: the shortcuts have the classic Cygwin icon whereas the >> resulting terminal window has the mintty (n=C3=A9e Konsole) icon. Worse,= on >> Windows 7 at least, the Cygwin icon also appears in the taskbar. > > Not on my W7. But it does here. Cygwin icon on shortcut, Konsole icon on window, Cygwin icon in taskbar. I'm afraid I've got no idea what determines this. Could be to do with pinning, although I haven't got it pinned at the moment. >> It >> needs to be the same icon throughout. > > Why? Because they're meant to help users identify stuff. Perhaps the window icon being different from the shortcut icon the user clicked on to start it is just about tolerable, but the taskbar icon not matching the window is very very wrong. > I have no problems with either. I like the mintty icon, but I also don't > want to remove the Cygwin icon entirely since, as ugly as it may be, it's > kind of a brand and has a recognition value, collected over the years. > > What about modernizing the Cygwin icon? I quite like Chuck's take on this. > Or, what about having a mintty > terminal icon with a small C in it? The only problem with this is, I'm > anything but an artist... Me neither, which is why I just picked an existing generic terminal icon that I liked. Regarding Warren's effort, the challenge is that it still needs to look good at 16x16. (Btw, mintty's --icon/-i option can be used to stick any icon on its window= .) Andy