Bug#348775: general: terminal emulators' alternatives settings' priorities annoy users

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

> . unlike browsers with $BROWSER and desktop-specific settings, there
>  is no standard, cross-distro way to make a user-specific choice of
>  terminal
...
> To solve (2): one could introduce a TERMINAL environment variable
> analogous to MAILER and implement xdg-terminal that reads it.  Please
> clone this bug and assign to xdg-utils if interested.

In xdg-utils CVS there is an xdg-terminal script, not sure why that
isn't available in Debian yet:

http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-terminal.in?revision=HEAD&view=markup
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/portland/portland/xdg-utils/scripts/xdg-terminal?revision=HEAD&view=markup

-- 
bye,
pabs

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