On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 01:32:57PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > I personally don't like long package name more than 14 characters > because 'dpkg -l' displays only top 14 characters. Not anymore. See recent versions of dpkg. I'm not yet sure what I think of this whole "sensible-xtermemu" idea, given that xterm is all I've personally ever needed, but for consistency with the other "sensible" things, I think the only reasonable name for this package/program would be "sensible-x-terminal-emulator". > If we don't mind the length of the name, 'sensible-x-terminal-emulator' > and '$XTERMINALEMULATOR' will be the most straightforward name. However, > even if we admit 'sensible-x-terminal-emulator' because users won't > type the name, '$XTERMINALEMULATOR' is surely too long. People will be typing the name of that variable about once, in their shell startup scripts. > Thus I would like to adopt 'sensible-x-term-emu' and '$XTERMEMU'. > Any comments? Yes. If you have to embark on this project at all, I suggest "sensible-x-terminal-emulator" and "$XTERMINALEMULATOR". Underscores are permitted in variable names in every shell with which I am familiar, so "$X_TERMINAL_EMULATOR" may be even better. > # Don't think this is a mere problem on name, since this will be > # integrated into debianutils. :-) I hope not. Instead of all this furious forking of terminal emulators, I would hope that people would contribute to improving xterm. It is actively maintained upstream by Thomas Dickey, and he is quite diligently working at improving it, with support for variable-width fonts, and so forth. Maybe people should read the upstream xterm changelog every once in a while. While I'm pretty sure the xterm in XFree86 3.3.6 is not ready for East Asian languages, the 4.0 xterm might be close. > > Please think about this. If we want to change the wording, it's got > > to be done NOW before "sensible-x-terminal" and "XTERMINAL" are too > > commonly used. > > I assent. I question the wisdom of this entire enterprise. I do not find sensible-x-terminal-emulator as proposed very similar in purpose to sensible-editor or sensible-pager at all. Instead it looks to me like you are hard-coding in all kinds of locale-specific assumptions about what terminal emulator program should be used. That way lies madness. Why don't we put our efforts towards making the standard, reference implementation of a terminal emulator fit for as many locales as possible? That program would be xterm. -- G. Branden Robinson | The only way to get rid of a temptation Debian GNU/Linux | is to yield to it. branden@debian.org | -- Oscar Wilde http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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