[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 #9 from Thomas Gläßle <t_glaessle at gmx.de> ---
> I suggest we invent a variable $TERMINAL that will work similarly to $BROWSER and $MAILER.

mimeopen already uses $TERMINAL in the manner that TERMINAL="terminator -x"
would be a valid setting, while TERMINAL=terminator:urxvt:xterm is not.

Since mimeopen is not completely independent (it is actually used by xdg-open
as fallback), I don't really like the different usage of the same variable in
both tools.

I'd suggest using $TERMINAL as in mimeopen (as in the patch above), or using a
$TERMCMD or similar in the way that $BROWSER is used. (ranger currently uses
$TERMCMD in a way that would be upwoard compatible to the suggested use).


> No DE => means no "environment", so not exactly something very supportable to begin with.

It is supportable with minimal necessary user configuration (setting $TERMCMD,
or $TERMINAL or whatever)

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