Spec to define the default terminal?

[Roman Chistokhodov]

I found error in processing TryExec. Made pull request.

What the specification is XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP part of?

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Vladimir Kudrya <vladimir-csp at yandex.ru>
wrote:

> 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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