Re: x-terminal-emulator does not appear to accept comand line args
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:18:35 -0400, William Hopkins wrote:
> On 06/09/11 at 05:31pm, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:46:54 +0100, Dom wrote:
>> > I think that as the wrapper is translating x-terminal options to
>> > gnome-terminal equivalents, it shouldn't pass through "-h" or
>> > "--help", but should display a basic usage page for the options that
>> > *it* accepts.
>> >
>> > Therefore I consider this to be a bug (albeit minor in nature). I
>> > just use the native gnome-terminal options anyway.
>>
>> I don't know why but something tells me that there must be a good
>> reason for the wrapper behaving in that way, differently than the full
>> binary.
>
> Of course. gnome-terminal.wrapper is created solely for
> x-terminal-emulator use by gnome-core/gnome-terminal maintainer
> Christian Marillat, and it tries to present a set of options more like
> xterm, since x-terminal-emulator has decided on xterm-style options.
> Emulating a single set of options where conflicts occur is a policy
> decision, IIRC.
Ah... then it is intended so no bug here, right?
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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