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:
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> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
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>>>> 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?
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> 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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