[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] juju-35:
Benghali,

thanks your last information made it clear for me.

I was trying to see how I can fully automate the process from initial flash. I agree that we are talking about gaining another 30 seconds for a product that already saves you hours or re-cofniguring each time or of debugging UC XML files, both of which I have done.

To close the chapter it was not clear for me (in the doc either) that you do not need to re-install Sashimi to the SD card once installed first. It is my impression that most install cabs set registry values that are required to run the program. THis is why I was trying to find a way to automatically re-install the cab at each flash. Point closed.

Now, sorry but I would like to come back to my shortcut topic, and explain in a bit mroe detail. My primary concern is NOT the Sashimi shortcut itself (especially now that I do not have to reinstall Sashimi ever!), but shortcuts of other programs I install. Sorry if my points were not clear earlier.

My problem (which I guess/hope is true for others) is that when you install a large number of cabs after falshing, they find themselves in all kind of places in the Start menu/program menu that makes it difficult to find and use afterwards. For instance, I may install 20 games and find them all over my program menus, while I would want them all in the /games sub directory. One of my bg frustrtions with UC has been that I found it difficult to find an easy way to re-assign shortcuts where I want them. I was hoping that Sashimni could offer a way in the following manner (or any othe manner, this is just a suggestion!):

1- You copy cabs in to the cab/sub_directory, and organize the cabs in the way you want them laid out in your menu structure. THis is already supported per the doc to let poeople "organize" their cab. My point is that if people take the time organize their cab in the Sasimi sub directories, why not use this as the structure for the Start menu? Say for example I have a cab called file-explorer.cab that I install in Sashimi/auto/cab/tools/file-explorer.cab

2- Create an ini file in the /bin directory that could say something like

Shortcuts = default , or shortcuts = subdirectory, or shortucts = no. If Shortcuts = dafault, Sashimi would let the cab install the shortcut in their default location. If shortcuts= directory, Sashimi would make sure that the shortcut in the program menu would be installed in the subdirectory inside the start menu/Programs menu. In my example above file-explorer would ahve shortcut in Windows/Start Menu/Program/tools, isntead of the default loction of the shortcut, which could be "Tool", or nothing, or "Sytem tools", which neds up into an unusable program menu struicture. If shortcuts=no, it woudl not create any shortcut.

I know you suggested to isntall a ROM, move shortcuts around the way one likes, then copy the structure, and have it copied back with Sashimi file operation. THis does not seem to work well because you will have a lot of shortcuts from the ROM (I guess you could manually remove them, but still a pain), you will have still the shortcuts from the default installer of the cabs,...

I guess another way to do it systematically would be for me to put shortctus structure for my cabs in the Sashimi Root directory (without those from the ROM), have Sashimi on a clean install to copy all of the start Menu/Program sub directory into SD card, then install all cabs, then delete Start Menu/program/* completely, then copy back cab shortcuts + initial ROM Start Menu.

Either way or whatever more clever way would work,but I was basically Ilooking for a way to automate this whole shortcut process. If you think this is possible/beneficial for others, I would be very interested in a solution for this!

Another way that was suggested before was to edit the cab and manually enter the desired shortcut location in each cab. Not very scalable and very painful when cab versions keep changing. Hoping Sashimi can do somethign for this!

Thanks for your patience and time.

Juju