[Portland-bugs] [Bug 44359] New: On desktops without xterm, xdg-terminal's fallback for TERM="" simply fails

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44359

             Bug #: 44359
           Summary: On desktops without xterm, xdg-terminal's fallback for
                    TERM="" simply fails
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: freedesktop.zen.ssokolow at spamgourmet.com


Created attachment 55013
  --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=55013
Patch for more robust fallback behaviour (apply after patches for bugs 44357
and 44358)

Some distros (eg. Lubuntu) don't install xterm by default. Furthermore, some
users may prefer urxvt (rxvt-unicode) to xterm.

The current git HEAD (b961235b197647d6649ef3d48d7cc2cecafe3d47) for
xdg-terminal.in simply fails under these circumstances.

I'm not sure what the best solution would be in this case but, for my tool
which needed a working xdg-terminal right now, I borrowed the colon-separated
list $BROWSER code from xdg-open.

I'm attaching a patch in case it's of use. It depends on my patches for bug
44357 and bug 44358 but, if there's interest, I can rework it to apply against
whatever you prefer.

The behaviour I chose was to prefer urxvt over rxvt and rxvt over xterm on the
assumption that, while xterm is often installed by default, rxvt and
rxvt-unicode being present generally indicates an explicit preference for them
on the user's part.

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