Bug#1008782: gnome-core: Install gnome-text-editor by default

Jeremy Bicha <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.gtk-gnome
Message-ID <CAD+GYvw7u3MRRvLWiDr-1uA+Zmq8TPvQLOjBaT735-eiRmdzYQ__12612.2400675499$1648818933$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com>
Package: gnome-core
Version: 1:42+1
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]

I propose 2 changes to the gnome-core metapackage:

1. Install gnome-text-editor by default but allow gedit as an alternate for now.
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/meta-gnome3/-/merge_requests/6

- GNOME 42 has gnome-text-editor as the only text editor in their core set.
- Fedora 36 has switched their default from gnome-text-editor to gedit too.
- Maybe after the Bookworm release, we'd drop the alternate too.

2. Allow gnome-console as an alternative to gnome-terminal but keep
gnome-terminal as the default terminal for now.

- We still have some integration work to do for GNOME Console to be a
reasonable drop-in replacement on Debian.
+ It should be an x-terminal-emulator alternative
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/console/-/issues/26
+ New tabs should open with the same working directory as the current
tab. Works on Fedora; needs something else to work on Debian.

- GNOME 42 did switch their core set to have gnome-console as the only
terminal in the core set, but glib hasn't been updated to fully
support that. (We will be updating our glib soon to distro patch
that.)

- Fedora 36 kept GNOME Terminal as default. I think their hesitation
would mostly be resolved once Console adds a preferences dialog with
popular customizations. So there's a chance that Console would be more
"competitive" for GNOME 43 so this is something to be thinking about
for a late default switch for Bookworm.

https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/261


Final note: our metapackages should probably be redone to more closely
match GNOME's upstream metapackages. I suggest this be worked on at
DebConf in a few months.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha
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