x-terminal-emulator options

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

Hi Debian-policy,

The new policy require that:

12.8.3. Packages providing a terminal emulator
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     To be an `x-terminal-emulator', a program must:
        * Be able to emulate a DEC VT100 terminal, or a compatible
          terminal.
        * Support the command-line option `-e <command>', which creates a
          new terminal window[1] and runs the specified <command>,
          interpreting the entirity of the rest of the command line as a
          command to pass straight to exec, in the manner that `xterm'
          does.
        * Support the command-line option `-T <title>', which creates a new
          terminal window with the window title <title>.

Looking at /etc/menu/menu.h, function term()=\
    "x-terminal-emulator " ifnempty($visible,"-ut") \
        ifnempty($geometry,"-geometry ") $geometry \
        " -T \"" title() "\""  " -e " $command

it seems that menu suppose that -ut and -geometry options are also understood
like xterm.

Before just removing these options, I would like to ask if many
x-terminal-emulator support them and if it would be correct for
policy to require them.

It is a fairly minor issue, but -geometry can be useful.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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