From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Setup.exe and accessability
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210251150190.13770-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021025153421.GE7448@redhat.com>
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 02:05:14PM +0200, Lars Bj?rndal wrote:
> >As far I can see, you can not select individual packages within
> >setup.exe without using the mouse. I'm blind, and therefore I can not
> >install cygwin without assistance from a sighted person. Is it
> >possible that this will be changed in the next version? Or is there a
> >posibility that I have not seen?
>
> The only thing that I can think of that could possibly be of use is
> the oft-mentioned command line options for setup.exe. Various people
> have mentioned that they were going to work on this but I've never
> seen anyone (besides Robert of course) follow through on fully realizing
> this to the point where you can install packages from the command line.
Adding keyboard shortcuts to the package selection screen (i.e., <Tab>bing
to the Action column and the checkboxes) would do it as well, I suppose.
"Did I phrase that sufficiently neutrally to avoid being asked to submit a
patch?" (C) R. Schulz.
Igor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-25 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-25 6:24 Lars Bjørndal
2002-10-25 8:50 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-10-25 9:33 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
2002-10-25 11:45 ` Christopher Faylor
2002-10-26 14:10 ` Gary R. Van Sickle
2002-10-25 9:34 Harig, Mark A.
2002-10-25 11:15 lhall
2002-10-25 11:19 ` Igor Pechtchanski
2002-10-25 15:05 lhall
2002-10-27 18:40 amores perros
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