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Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:03:01 -0600
From:	Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
To:	Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: cygutils - mkshortcut - Patch for --desc option for description/tooltip text - Needed for new Cygwin/X package
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In-Reply-To:	<4050039C.5010205@cwilson.fastmail.fm>; from cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm on Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 01:13:48AM -0500

On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 01:13:48AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> > 
> >> Attached is a patch to mkshortcut to allow it to take a [-d|--desc] DESC
> >> option that specifies the text of the description (tooltip text) for the
> >> shortcut.  If -d|--desc is not specified, then the previous behavior of
> >> setting the description to the POSIX path to the application is used.
> >>
> >> I have build tested and run tested the attached patch.
> >>
> >> I need this patch for a replacement for the XFree86-bin-icons package.
> >> I already have the new package in hand, but I need this new
> >> functionality in order for the shortcuts to have meaningful names and
> >> descriptions.
> 
> I'll let Joshua make the call on this; if he says "go" then I'll put it 
> in and release a new cygutils as quickly as I can.

Looks good to me. I'd rather the --help output be kept under 80 chars,
but it's already too late for the --workingdir option too. Oh well.


Before you release another cygutils package, note that 'readlink' may
conflict with the proposed coreutils. Might be a good opportunity for
coordination.

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