Terminal emulator doesn't respect the favourite gnome terminal

Unfortunately we have chosen a simple application selector instead of trying to lure out the user settings. It's not optimal, but we needed something that worked on all desktops. It could be implemented in a plugin.

Workaround until it is fixed: Activate "Custom Terminal" in plugins and enter x-terminal-emulator there. (The choose Custom Terminal on the first page).

Thanks. :-)
I didn't know this option. With this workaround solves it.

By the way, terminator's "x-terminal-emulator" is actually broken, but not in a major way.

Anyway its -e flag does not support a whole string of arguments like it should. Therefore for maximum compatibility you should configure Command: terminator Execute-flag: -x instead. Basically this is a bug in debian's x-terminal-emulator layer.

It only makes a difference for Terminal=true applications and Run in Terminal, when you run something which is more than one word.

We WONTFIX this bug: we won't try to use GNOME settings. We provide a terminal emulator chooser already and do quite deep integration with that.*

* Default GLib application launching does not support custom or GNOME settings when launching terminals, but we always use the kupfer-configured terminal.

Wait, it is in fact "trivial"to implement this in a plugin. A plugin can the depend on gconf and the stuff it needs, and it will be automatically disabled if those dependencies aren't met.

WONTFIX applies to Kupfer core.

Sorry for the noise. I hadn't realised quite how badly messed up cross-environment prefs are. The best I can suggest for now is to add x-terminal-emulator to the list if it exists, as at least that is a system-settable pref on Debian & Ubuntu, and it's easy to find without dependencies on stupid frameworks.