Spec to define the default terminal?

[Vladimir Kudrya]

I'm backing up my proposal with some code:

https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/xdg-terminal-exec

Please test.


2017-05-25 10:09, Vladimir Kudrya пишет:
> So now xdg-termial is a collection of workarouds to tie different DE's 
> approaches together. Just like xdg-open.
> IMHO, there should be a movement towards proper standards.
>
> @Simon, with your remarks taken into accout, here is an update:
> Using desktop entries to define terminals gives advantages to 
> downstream tools (selector GUIs, etc.) by providing proper 
> descriptions, l10n.
> Places to look could be extended beyond /usr, into a proper 
> ${XDG_DATA_[HOME|DIRS]} hierarchy, so it would look like this:
>
> Terminal descriptios:
> ~/.local/share/xdg-terminals ($XDG_DATA_HOME)
> {/usr/local/share,/usr/share}/xdg-terminals ($XDG_DATA_DIRS)
>
> Configs:
> ~/.config/$desktop-xdg-terminals.list ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME)
> ~/.config/xdg-terminals.list
> /etc/xdg/$desktop-xdg-terminals.list ($XDG_CONFIG_DIRS)
> /etc/xdg/xdg-terminals.list
>
> If this logic would be embeded into xdg-terminal, that would be a 
> great start.
>
> 2017-05-25 09:16, Simon Lees wrote:
>> We already have the xdg-terminal binary which launches the terminal
>> based off the currently running desktop. I think a better approach would
>> be to integrate with that existing infrastructure, it could be modified
>> for example to check for the existence of a config file in 1 maybe
>> several dirs (I guess a sysadmin may want to configure a default
>> terminal for all his users).
>>
>> That config file would contain the path to the terminal followed by the
>> exec command. This approach is less secure as someone could modify the
>> config file without you realising (I guess this could happen anyway).
>>
>> I don't like the idea of describing exec arguments only somewhere in
>> /usr, it would mean that if I was working on a machine that I didn't
>> have root access to and I wanted to use some less popular or new
>> terminal that hadn't been added to the list yet I wouldn't be able to. I
>> also wouldn't be able to use a terminal that I had built from source in
>> my home dir and added to my path.
>>
>> I also think in the days of the X11 / wayland transition prefixing the
>> config files with xdg- rather then x- is a better approach, I may be on
>> my own with that though.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>
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