Thomas, I don't understand why you think I'm making a personal attack. I understand that "ugly" and "beautiful" can be subjective but the icon does look dated. It uses an olive green square background without rounded corners. CRT monitors are not popular these days. The icon is also pixelated which is interesting because the icons at http ://invisible-island.net/xterm/ aren't.
Ubuntu since the beginning has had the goal of shipping with only one app for a purpose, i.e. Firefox or Chromium but not both. Ubuntu users who prefer xterm to gnome-terminal are fairly rare and should be able to figure out Alt-F2. ** Description changed: The Ubuntu 11.10 desktop by default has three terminals in the Dash labeled respectively as: Terminal, XTerm, and UXTerm. This is rather confusing for users who are told to just run a terminal. XTerm and UXTerm share a rather old, outdated icon and very few users will prefer using them to using the standard, full-featured GNOME Terminal. XTerm apparently is used by Ubuntu's failsafe mode and so must be present by default. My Proposed fix: 1.Add NoDisplay=true to the end of these 2 files: sudoedit /usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop sudoedit /usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop 2. Run sudo update-desktop-database 3. Log out and log back in. 4. Type "term" into the Dash, xterm and uxterm should not show. - 5. Close the dash and type Alt+F2, now type "xterm" and "uxterm". The app shows with its icon. When run, the icon will show in the launcher and the Alt-Tab switcher. + 5. Close the dash and type Alt+F2, now type "xterm" and "uxterm". The app shows with its icon. When run, the icon will show in the launcher and the Alt-Tab switcher. This fixes the problem mentioned in comment #10. + + When the app is running, it's also possible to right-click on the app to + lock to launcher in Unity or add to favorites in GNOME Shell. If you're + using GNOME Classic, you can easily use Alacarte to unhide xterm. This should be a good compromise between most users who don't need the clutter of the extra terminals and the ones who actually do want to run xterm. Also xterm has been hidden by default for many releases now and I personally consider their presence now a UI regression, not an improvement. --Jeremy Bicha -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xterm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129041 Title: xterm icon available by default To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/129041/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
