[Portland-bugs] [Bug 92514] xdg-open does not spawn terminal for Terminal=true

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92514

--- Comment #4 from Per Olofsson <pelle at debian.org> ---
(In reply to Thomas Gläßle from comment #3)
> 1. the $TERM variable does not necessarily correspond to a binary on the
> system
> 
>     - Using urxvt, the variable is set to 'rxvt-unicode-256color'
>     - Using terminator, the variable is set to 'xterm' by default, but I
>       usually change it to 'xterm-256color', because that worked better in
>       some circumstances (don't remember what exactly)

I don't know why it uses $TERM. It's totally wrong IMHO.

> 2. there is no way to use arbitrary terminals. E.g. terminator uses `-x`
> instead of `-e`
> 
> 
> > I'd like to encourage use of [...] gvfs-open/kde-open(5)...
> 
> xdg-open already uses these commands in the presence of a desktop
> environment. Do you suggest to use and require either of these tools even
> for systems without desktop environment?

I suggest we invent a variable $TERMINAL that will work similarly to $BROWSER
and $MAILER.

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