Bug#348775: general: terminal emulators' alternatives settings' priorities annoy users
Package: general
Severity: normal
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Hi,
The problem at hand is the proposed (and implemented) solution for
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332223 .
I'm unconvinced that bumping the priority on the other terminal
emulators is an adequate solution, hence I'm opening this "general" bug
for discussion on how to reflect individual users' choices properly.
It has been suggested on #debian-devel that maybe creating a per-user
~/bin with its own alternatives links might be an option, however there
needs to be a fallback mechanism in case the currently selected option
goes away. Perhaps it might be an idea to have a wrapper binary that
will fall back on the highest precedence alternative in this case, or
optionally show a menu (gee, there may be multiple wrapper programs, so
there needs to be a mechanism to select them...NOT!).
This message shall serve as a starting point for discussion. Please CC
the bug in replies.
Simon
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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