[racket] 5.3.4 on windows .. minor gripe

From: Tim Brown (tim.brown at timb.net)
Date: Thu May 9 08:54:11 EDT 2013

I have just installed 5.3.4 on Windows 8. But, of course, since it uses the
"Start" Page and tiles, there isn't an issue with choosing a Start Button.
I got tiles for DrRacket, GRacket, Racket and Docs. (Which is nothing
compared to the 100 or so tiles I got from Cygwin!)



On 8 May 2013 21:47, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> 40 minutes ago, Tim Brown wrote:
> > I've just installed 5.3.4 for windows 64 bit. I've ended up with a
> > GRacket icon in my start menu, whereas I'd rather expect a DrRacket.
>
> I think that Windows 7 uses some obscure guess about programs that it
> shows you in the menu's toplevel, but I have no idea how it does its
> guess or how to control it...
>
>
> > DrRacket is installed and running lovely from the "Programs" menu.
> > But it's at least one (if not two) more clicks away!
>
> The startup menu folder is the only thing that the installer creates.
> If anyone has any pointers on how to control the thing that it puts at
> the toplevel menu I can try to add it to the installer.
>
> --
>           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
>                     http://barzilay.org/                   Maze is Life!
>



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