On 27/07/2026 21:35, slipbits via Cygwin wrote:
These are some things which I think may be nice to have. Maybe they
can be included in a future upgrade.
[1] Font size. An option to (at least) change to size of the fonts.
The existing ones are tiny (for me).
[2] Font density. An option to increase the font density (bold, ?).
[3] Dark mode. The light background is really bothersome. Maybe a dark
mode choice?
Even better: Use the color theme of the operating system, noting that
globally setting the text and background color for main windows has been
a thing since about 1990, and this setting now seems to be controlled by
the "theme" UI. There is even a notification telling GUI programs
whenever this may have changed while the UI is on screen.
[4] Search and Return. The existing search returns to the first entry
(in >view->full) rather than to the point where a search was selected.
I might add that the existing setup-x86_64.exe is outstanding, with
the changes that have only improved it.
Here is one more:
Make sure the setup.exe version number is monotonically increasing over
the project lifetime (i.e. since first cygwin setup.exe back in the day)
and is stated clearly on the download page. Also maybe incorporate the
cygwin1.dll version number in some of the more significanat version
number parts. Since 1992, Windows exe/dll file versions consist of 4
numbers major.minor.subrelease.patch, where each field is 0..65535
inclusive and the entire value can be compared as an uint64_t .
Enjoy
Jakob
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