[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 #10 from Thomas Gläßle <t_glaessle at gmx.de> ---
Alternative thought:

Allow to define a .desktop file for terminal applications, i.e. something like:

    [Desktop Entry]
    name=terminator
    GenericName=X Terminal Emulator
    Exec=terminator -x %F
    MimeType=x-terminal-emulator

where xdg-open or similar tools can find suitable terminals via the mimetype.
In a way, I find this rather elegant, since it could use an existing very
extensible mechanism., e.g. users could then easily define their preferred
terminal in the mimeapps.list file using the existing mechanism.

On the other hand though, I'm not sure whether this makes sense since the
concept of mimetypes doesn't really match command execution.

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