Under GNOME should not offer to configure terminal
Bug #777423 reported by
Reuben Thomas
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #748227: Terminal emulator doesn't respect the favourite gnome terminal .
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Bug Description
GNOME allows the user to configure the preferred terminal already under Preferred Applications; kupfer should use that rather than offering another configuration.
In fact, I suspect that in most environments there is already a setting kupfer can read instead of introducing one of its own: surely KDE and XFCE have a setting? Also, on Debian/Ubuntu, kupfer can use x-terminal-emulator (when not running under an environment that offers per-user settings).
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| X (u78qir8a9-deactivatedaccount) wrote | #1 |
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This is a duplicate of bug #748227
We *needed* to first provide something that worked for all desktops/no desktop at all. Now you wish that we suppor specific GNOME/XFCE/etc terminal configuration. That's nontrivial. For GNOME, the reason is simple, it would add a new dependency in the core (gconf) which is obsolete. Also, the number of platforms is pretty large now GNOME3, GNOME2, XFCE, LXDE etc
This is more likely to happen if there is standardization across distributions and desktops.
**Alternatively** In kupfer, you can also implement all this via a Plugin. If someone writes a great plugin that supports smarter terminal configuration, we can include that plugin and maybe even enable it by default. So the playing field is open here for you or someone else to fill in this feature.