At Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:34 AM, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: > I wonder if most of people have any knowledge about setup command > line arguments, I believe in most cases setup is being started > directly from cygwin web page. > > It's the most important rule of any GUI program design - all settings > must be available in GUI.
I would say that they are available in the GUI, but not with an option to be remembered. I have c:\cygwin\arc\setup.exe -R c:\cygwin -s ftp://mirrors.rcn.net -n -q in my startup folder to keep me up-to-date without any manual intervention. If Mr. Wolff uses the command-line options form a short-cut, he will eliminate the annoyance in question. > On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 08:07, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: >> There are command line options to avoid this; see >> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-03/msg00526.html >> -n --no-shortcuts Disable creation of desktop and start >> -N --no-startmenu Disable creation of start menu shortcut >> -d --no-desktop Disable creation of desktop shortcut >> >> At Monday, October 25, 2004 10:14 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: >>> * setup does not remember the user preferences about the final two >>> questions; it especially annoys me that I have to click off >>> the option to create a desktop icon every time
