Re: Spec to define the default terminal?

From here:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/ar01s02.html

This is determined from taking the
ascii-lowercase form of a component the environment variable
$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, which is a colon-separated list of names
that the current desktop is known as.

I'll make the changes accordingly.

2017-05-25 17:02, Roman Chistokhodov
пишет:

There's already lowercase version in XDG_MENU_PREFIX
variable (it also usually includes trailing '-') which is part
of menu spec. But I'm not sure if it's applicable here.

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 4:59 PM,
Vladimir Kudrya <[email protected] >
wrote:

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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