From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: MinTTY "vs" rxvt (was Re: MinTTY 0.3.3)
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496A646C.7080504@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496A54F6.7020107@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Charles Wilson wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> If so, should we consider deprecating rxvt in
>> favor of MinTTY when MinTTY becomes a real package?
>>
>> If not, there is no harm in keeping two packages in the distribution. I
>> was just trying to lighten your load if you were interested.
>
> I'd lean toward keeping both in the distro
Same here.
> (mainly because I'd hate to
> see a never-ending flood of "where'd rxvt go?" queries. That'd be more
> of a pain than the relatively infrequent updates that rxvt gets).
And I'd be dreading the inevitable demands to implement every single
feature and option that rxvt provides.
> You mean like another setup.exe pane (or option in an existing pane) to
> select the terminal that should be started by the "default" Cygwin link
> in the Start Menu? That's an interesting idea...
How about just providing Start Menu shortcuts for all installed
terminals in a "Cygwin" folder, much like Yaakov has done in MinTTY's
cygports package? The user could always copy them to more easily
accessible places as needed, or just rely on the recently-used list.
>> Or just switch rxvt to the regular X11 version w/o all the libW11 hackery?
Bypassing the X protocol by implementing Xlib directly on Win32 does
seem rather a good idea in principle at least. How come it hasn't been
used more widely?
Andy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-11 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-11 4:56 pedantic/misled/confused/passive-aggressive " Christopher Faylor
2009-01-11 9:17 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2009-01-11 20:53 ` MinTTY "vs" rxvt " Charles Wilson
2009-01-11 22:18 ` Andy Koppe [this message]
2009-01-11 23:33 ` Charles Wilson
2009-01-12 0:37 ` Andrew DeFaria
2009-01-12 0:45 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-01-12 0:42 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-01-12 5:14 ` Paul McFerrin
2009-01-12 12:35 ` Andy Koppe
2009-01-12 16:34 ` cgf
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