On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:46:54 +0100, Dom wrote: > On 09/06/11 17:32, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:58:02 +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:21:58 -0700, briand wrote: >>> >>>> There's still a bug, as the man page brings up the man page/options >>>> for gnome-terminal which uses "--geometry=". >>> >>> I think there is no bug... let' see: >>> >>> sm01@stt008:~$ grep help /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator >>> elsif ($opt eq '-h' || $opt eq '--help') >>> push(@args, '--help'); >>> >>> The "help" command from "x-terminal-emulator" accepts both arguments, >>> "- h" and "--help") ;-) >> >> Err... after re-reading my response I think I've completely lost my >> bearings (I don't know how in hell I linked the "--help" parameter with >> the man page, sorry). >> >> Anyway, I think "gnome-terminal" does not have to share the same >> arguments than "x-terminal-emulator" so IMO, still no bug (yes, the man >> page launched is the one of "gnome-terminal" but that's the expected >> because in the end the perl script points to "gnome-terminal" binary or >> whatever terminal the user has setup as default). > > Actually the perl script in this case only points to "gnome-terminal", > nothing else.
Hum... it really points to the wrapper, not to "gnome-terminal" binary: stt008:~# LANG=POSIX update-alternatives --display x-terminal-emulator x-terminal-emulator - status is auto. link currently points to /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper /usr/bin/xterm - priority 20 slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/xterm.1.gz /usr/bin/uxterm - priority 20 slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/uxterm.1.gz /usr/bin/koi8rxterm - priority 20 slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/koi8rxterm.1.gz /usr/bin/lxterm - priority 30 slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/lxterm.1.gz /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper - priority 40 slave x-terminal-emulator.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-terminal.1.gz Current `best' version is /usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper. So the questions would be... what's the main role of the wrapper and why "alternatives" is not pointing to the full binary instead? > "x-terminal-emulator" is a symlink to > "/etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator", which is a symlink to the perl > script "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal.wrapper". Yep. > I think that as the wrapper is translating x-terminal options to > gnome-terminal equivalents, it shouldn't pass through "-h" or "--help", > but should display a basic usage page for the options that *it* accepts. > > Therefore I consider this to be a bug (albeit minor in nature). I just > use the native gnome-terminal options anyway. I don't know why but something tells me that there must be a good reason for the wrapper behaving in that way, differently than the full binary. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.06.09.17.31...@gmail.com
