Re: default application and xterm -e

Ranousse <[email protected]> writes:

> Suppose your in
> ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
>
> text/plain=vi.desktop
>
> and vi.desktop is a file in ~/.local/share/applications/ containing
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=vi
> Exec=vi %f
> Terminal=true
> Type=Application
>
>
> Opera reads this informations and opens files with mime type text/plain
> with
> xterm -hold -e vi file.
>
> My problem is the -hold, which means do not close xterm when the
> application has finished. It's not natural at all for me.
> I wonder why opera adds -hold and if there is something that could be
> customized to avoid this.
>
> Adding -hold is I think not natural.
> In .mailcap when say needsterminal=true, see or xdg-open does not add
> -hold to xterm.
> File managers using .local/share information (thunar for instance) does
> not add -hold.

Random guess: if the application was cat instead of vi, the -hold would
be absolutely necessary, right?  Maybe that was one of the test cases
the author was using.

Is there a way to tell whether termination of an application should
close the window or not?

That being said, I think I tend to agree with you.  -hold is probably by
far the less common case.  And if other applications generally do not
add -hold, then we should probably do the same.

Please file a bug report (http://bugs.opera.com/wizard/).

eirik
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