Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've brought this up in the past on debian-devel, but didn't follow > through at the time. We have lots of X-based terminal programs (xterm, > rxvt, gnome-terminal, konsole, ...) which Provide: > x-terminal-emulator. That's great and useful, but the command line > interfaces to some of those have shifted over time and there is little > remaining consistency. For programs like Seyon that want to use one of > these terminal programs, there is no simple way to specify options > such as the name to use for its window, and that has been the cause of > several bugs over the years (#315945, #398508, #502001). > > I want to fix this, but do it right. I can see some options here: > > 1. Force all seyon users to install xterm by using a direct > dependency on *just* xterm and call it instead of > x-terminal-emulator > > 2. Work out a standard set of command line options that must be > supported by each package that Provides: x-terminal-emulator > > 3. Write a wrapper script to deal with each possible terminal program > and map from a standard set of options to the specific options for > that program. > > Ideally, I'd like us to do a combination of #2 and #3: work out the
Just curious, but why 2 & 3? Why isn't 1 considered the simplest solution? xterm is ca. 300k. What Seyon users can't afford 300k disk space or its RSS? vi's installed on every *nix box on the planet. Why shouldn't xterm be on every X install on the planet? My /usr/bin/vim.basic is 1.3 Mb. 1 seems a far more robust solution to me. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
