From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: setup 2.906 release candidate - please test
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:29:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0be7355-cf11-e94d-84cc-5080478b9ddf@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f360b0f-7d3b-09d9-a084-bbbba35ab303@towo.net>
On 3/17/2021 5:16 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 17.03.2021 um 21:02 schrieb Jon Turney:
>>
>> A new setup release candidate is available at:
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.906.x86_64.exe (64 bit version)
>> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.906.x86.exe (32 bit version)
>>
>> Please test, and report any problems here.
> I feel the need to take this occasion to woe about the terrible UI of setup. Two
> years or more ago there was a major revision, sarcastically accompanied by the
> comment the UI would have been pushed forward to the 90s. Before that, you could
> simply select a package by clicking one (!) checkbox. Since then, you have to
> open a popup, scroll to the latest version and click that. This multiplies the
> effort to do selections significantly and it's quite a nuisance.
If you double-click in the New column, I think it will do what you want.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-17 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-17 20:02 Jon Turney
2021-03-17 20:08 ` Jon Turney
2021-04-26 12:00 ` Jon Turney
2021-03-17 21:16 ` Thomas Wolff
2021-03-17 21:29 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-03-21 0:33 ` Brian Inglis
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2021-03-25 19:11 ` Jon Turney
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2021-04-01 15:53 ` Jon Turney
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