On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Rick McGuire <object.r...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Applications that unilaterally add an icon to my Desktop drive me nuts.
> It's my desktop, damn it, I only what stuff on there that I determine are
> useful enough to be handy.
>
The installer would have a check box to install or not install a desktop
icon, so that it wasn't unilateral.
The real question in my mind is an icon for what?
Typically an application adds a desktop icon to start the application. An
icon to start rexx.exe is pointless. Staring the interpreter without
feeding it a program does nothing. We could educate users that drag and
dropping a Rexx program file on the icon will execute the program. In
which case the icon would serve some purpose. But, that is not going to
give people unfamiliar with Rexx a better intro to the advantages of Rexx.
Or we could add an icon to ooRexxTry.rex or rexxtry.rex, which could be
useful to some people that are familar with rexxtry.rex to begin with.
But, again I don't see how that gives someone unfamiliar with Rexx a
better introduction to its advantages.
It seems to me, that an installation of ooRexx is just not the type of
install where installing a desktop icon serves much purpose.
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Mark Miesfeld
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