Re: Spec to define the default terminal?

Merged, thanks!

$XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP... Not sure. Probably it's from pam_systemd.

It would be more reliable to take lowercase of
$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP then.

2017-05-25 16:53, Roman Chistokhodov
пишет:

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 <[email protected] >
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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