Package: sensible-utils Version: 0.0.4 Severity: wishlist Right now, if a program wants to start a terminal, at least on Debian it should use the x-terminal-emulator alternative. This does allow admin configuraiton, but like editor and pager that configuration can only occur system-wide, with no option for a user to configure their preferred terminal emulator.
Please consider providing a sensible-term script. This script should check the user's environment, then fall back to the preferred terminal emulator specified in the user's desktop environment (such as GNOME's "Preferred Applications"), then fall back to x-terminal-emulator. Two open questions: - What environment variable should sensible-term check? I don't see any existing precedent. I'd suggest $XTERMINAL. - What options does a terminal set in $XTERMINAL need to provide? As far as I can tell, it appears that users of x-terminal-emulator can only count on the -e option. Also, for ease of transition, ideally x-terminal-emulator could refer to sensible-term, and the real x-terminal-emulator alternative would live under some other name that sensible-term could call. This would avoid the need to fix umpteen programs which already use x-terminal-emulator. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
