Rodent theme, illegal filenames on windows

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Sun Dec 19 11:36:23 CET 2004


Maarten Boekhold wrote:
> 
> 
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>>>> Windows doesn't allow a colon (:) in a filename. Any suggestions on 
>>>> how to fix this? Can we rename these files globally, or should I add 
>>>> a cygwin-specific section to the Makefile.am?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hehe, then it seems the proposed freedesktop standard excludes 
>>> windows...
>>>
>> Right, this seems to exclude Cygwin users. As a quick fix, we could 
>> add another automake condition and check that in Makefile.am. Maarten, 
>> what do you think?
> 
> 
> So if I understand correctly, these symlinks are not required, and are 
> only there to satisfy the freedesktop standard. If we do *not* create 
> these symlinks on cygwin, Xfce will still work. Is that correct?

Thats correct.

> Maarten

Benedikt



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