Hi, On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Phil Lawrence wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > Now, with the technical stuff out of the way: are you not changing > > behavior? It seems that Linux users expect an program called by a > > menu item to block the application until the program returns, so that > > an error can be caught. > > The menu item in question is "Repository | Create Desktop Icon". It > does not launch a program, but rather creates a shortcut (.lnk file) > on the Windows desktop. > > The purpose of the created shortcut is to make it easy for a user to > launch git-gui for a particular repo in the future. > > > Maybe the expectation is different on Windows? But then, we'd still like > > to catch errors and warn the user about it, right? > > I believe a windows user would expect to see git gui launch when they > click the shortcut; they would not expect (nor want) to see a cmd > window open and remain open in the background. > > msysGit avoids opening a command window altogether when it's Git GUI > shortcut is used. Ideally git on cygwin would also have shortcuts > that simply open the GUI, but as a first step I saw we could at least > make the command window politely disappear. Thank you! Could you add those explanations to the commit message? Thanks, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
