I'm not sure what 'supported' means in this context, but I guess it's something like the core/default packages of Ubuntu (e.g. config tools, default desktop including gnome-terminal etc.) as opposed to the additional software (e.g. other vte-based terminals). Am I right?
I understand that the former category is more important, and that supporting two parallel versions is not ideal. On the other hand, blocking update of these components until all of them has a vte-0.38-based version released doesn't sound even worse to me. The weren't too many API changes, so for Ubuntu-maintained software the transition could probably be made really quickly. The bottleneck is of course apps that are not Ubuntu-specific. What really sucks is those apps that still use Gtk+2/vte-0.28, this ancient version of Vte contains dozens of severe bugs that were fixed in the mean time. (vte-0.36.3 is the first one I personally feel good about :)) However, at this point there's nothing we could do to urge them porting to Gtk+3. ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1114379 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1114379 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1132700 Title: gnome-terminal >= 3.7 requires sourcing of vte.sh login script Status in GNOME Terminal: Won't Fix Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: As of gnome-terminal 3.7.0, it is required to add the following to PS1 to get the usual behaviour where a new terminal opens with the current working directory of the terminal you activated it from. export PS1='\[$(__vte_ps1)\]'$PS1 gnome-terminal devs suggest to put this in .bashrc, however since this basically causes a regression, it would make sense to deal with it at a distro level and perhaps include it in the system bash scripts or similar. The actual change was made in libvte so this may potentially affect any application that uses that library. As a side note: __vte_ps1() is provided by /etc/profile.d/vte.sh, which is installed by libvte, however atleast on my system this script is not getting sourced at login for some reason. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-terminal/+bug/1132700/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
