Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator
From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
Subject: Re: sensible-x-terminal and x-terminal-emulator
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 09:35:45 +1000
> Okay, I'll just have a couple more goes at convincing you to divert xterm
> first... :)
Only few comments. I think that it might be the easiest and quickest
way to divert xterm if the aim is only to test sensible-xtermemu but
when it will be really uploaded to Debian it will be used as a real tool.
Then I am afraid that;
- xterm is too standard to be replaced with sensible-xtermemu.
As the author already pointed out it will cause severe confusion
to many users. Think when I type 'xterm' and I see kterm is running!
Well it is certainly kterm which I use usually but there are some
cases when I want intentionally to call xterm. Yes, of course I
know the method to call xterm; type 'xterm.x11' but it might
be impossible to expect that all users know this.
(I.e. it might be too radical ;-)
- to divert xterm will provide a bit different environment
from the one the author aims for. His goal might be replacing
X terminal emulator called from menu system or so.
Concerning this point, I would like to know
> > and be integrated into 'debianutils'
>
> xfree86-common would make more sense, I suspect.
what or how is your concrete idear? Do you mean to replace
xterm with sensible-xtermemu?
In anyway, how about to do the next set-up
> > > (2) rewrite some programs or configuration file which calls X terminal
> > > emulator to call /usr/bin/sensible-x-terminal-emulator. For
> > > example, /etc/menu-methods/menu.h has 'xterm'.
with the postinst of sensible-xtermemu?
This will provide rather similar environment which the author
aims for and causes almost no confusion. My system is just in
this situation now ;-)
Best Regards, 2000.7.22
--
Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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