I understand there was a thread on this previously, but that the protest failed, so I am here to renew it. rxvt needs a menu entry. I understand the reasoning it does not have one is that it is a required component, and if the user doesn't select any terminals the user should not have any terminal menu.. this logic is just plain wrong. This is *linux*.. a terminal is an expected, nay *required* piece of software, and should be made available by default via the menus. What if I'm configuring a server box and I just want a basic system.. say, X + TWM.. I don't like any of the other terminals.. I'm used to my rxvt. I boot up mandrake after seeing that rxvt is a default package to be installed and what.. no terminals menu? No rxvt? Anywhere? What the.. ?

You see where I'm coming from. It's foolish to try and remove the terminal from linux, especially when even Microsoft has realised that the terminal is essential to an OS (it's my understanding that the next generation of windows will have a more prevalent terminal / command prompt).

I plead for some sanity, please put the menu entry back in. Let the user that doesn't want a terminal remove the entry (it would give them an excuse to learn menudrake), and don't make the 99.99% of us who do want it have to load up menudrake just so we can gain access to a terminal.

Mike


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