Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2013-10-13 Thread gabriel b
Package: xterm Followup-For: Bug #645736 Dear Maintainer, Not sure if this is related to this, but on gnome3.0 it is impossible to launch xterm from the GUI. starting up DASH (or whatever gnome3 ui is called) and typing "xterm" return in an emtpy screen. i Set xterm as my default terminal by:

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 19.10.2011 19:41, schrieb Daniel Johnson: Now I want to know how to do the opposite. I feel like an incomplete menu is a broken one. If I installed xterm, and konsole I want them in my menu that's why I installed them, and I want this for all users by default. I don't know why you would want

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-20 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 19.10.2011 17:10, schrieb Will Set: sorry, I don't follow.. are you planning to look at the gnome-menu rewrite? I am currently using gnome-panel 3.0.2-1 and gnome-menus 3.0.1-2, but that's not the point. If using gnome-shell instead of the fallback session, both of the xterm icons appear a

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 19 octobre 2011 à 10:41 -0700, Daniel Johnson a écrit : > > I am using the fallback session (i.e. gnome-panel with classic menu) of > > GNOME 3 myself. That's how this icon caught my attention. The fact that it > > probably will not show up on the firts page of gnome-shell's applicatio

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 19.10.2011 11:45, schrieb Thomas Dickey: actually, looking through my .desktop files, I'm not seeing that this advice is being followed. For these cases there is still /etc/gnome/menus.blacklist Back to my point: why are you singling out xterm

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Daniel Johnson
> I am using the fallback session (i.e. gnome-panel with classic menu) of > GNOME 3 myself. That's how this icon caught my attention. The fact that it > probably will not show up on the firts page of gnome-shell's application > overview does not imply that this issue should remain unfixed. Now I w

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Will Set
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:48 AM Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 19.10.2011 16:41, schrieb Will Set: >> the request to hide xterm icons from the gnome-desktop maybe a moot point. >> Please take a look at the gnome-menu rewrite ... >> and see if the xterm icons s

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 19.10.2011 16:41, schrieb Will Set: the request to hide xterm icons from the gnome-desktop maybe a moot point. Please take a look at the gnome-menu rewrite ... and see if the xterm icons still adversely affect the Gnome-Desktop experience. I am using the fallback session (i.e. gnome-panel wi

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Will Set
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:22 AMFabian Greffrath  wrote: >Am 18.10.2011 18:14, schrieb Will Set: >>  >a typical GNOME desktop has gnome-terminal installed and this should >> Gnome desktop - new-features? >> cc: ing to possible interested list and devs. >

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 19.10.2011 11:45, schrieb Thomas Dickey: actually, looking through my .desktop files, I'm not seeing that this advice is being followed. For these cases there is still /etc/gnome/menus.blacklist Back to my point: why are you singling out xterm? Because it suddenly began to show an icon i

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 19.10.2011 11:28, schrieb Thomas Dickey: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 19.10.2011 10:23, schrieb Thomas Dickey: Without further qualifications then, you appear to be suggesting that only applications which are part of gnome sh

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 19.10.2011 11:28, schrieb Thomas Dickey: On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 19.10.2011 10:23, schrieb Thomas Dickey: Without further qualifications then, you appear to be suggesting that only applications which are part of gnome should be allowed to show up in its menus (for in

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 19.10.2011 10:23, schrieb Thomas Dickey: Without further qualifications then, you appear to be suggesting that only applications which are part of gnome should be allowed to show up in its menus (for instance emacs isn't). To pointedly *exclude* x

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 19.10.2011 10:23, schrieb Thomas Dickey: Without further qualifications then, you appear to be suggesting that only applications which are part of gnome should be allowed to show up in its menus (for instance emacs isn't). To pointedly *exclude* xterm, there should be some better justification

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 18.10.2011 23:17, schrieb Thomas Dickey: well perhaps there are 3 categories of users: a) people who intentionally use xterm (and don't mind the menus) b) people who more/less accidentally run xterm c) other (probably not gnome developers) Are y

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 18.10.2011 23:17, schrieb Thomas Dickey: well perhaps there are 3 categories of users: a) people who intentionally use xterm (and don't mind the menus) b) people who more/less accidentally run xterm c) other (probably not gnome developers) Are you addressing (b)? I am not addressing a spec

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-19 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 18.10.2011 18:14, schrieb Will Set: >a typical GNOME desktop has gnome-terminal installed and this should Gnome desktop - new-features? cc: ing to possible interested list and devs. What exactly do you mean? gnome-terminal has always been a dependency of gnome-core. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-18 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Am 18.10.2011 13:56, schrieb Thomas E. Dickey: I saw that in Ubuntu #129041; however a better fix would be to distribute the desktop files in a separate package, e.g., "xterm-desktop", which depends on xterm. There's no argument to the fact that peop

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-18 Thread Will Set
Monday, October 17, 2011 4:17 PM Fabian Greffrath wrote: >Package: xterm >Version: 276-1 >Severity: minor > >Hi, > >a typical GNOME desktop has gnome-terminal installed and this should be the Gnome desktop - new-features? cc: ing to possible  interested list and devs. >most prominent terminal app

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 18.10.2011 13:56, schrieb Thomas E. Dickey: I saw that in Ubuntu #129041; however a better fix would be to distribute the desktop files in a separate package, e.g., "xterm-desktop", which depends on xterm. There's no argument to the fact that people who would install that would get what they'r

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-18 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
Quoting Fabian Greffrath : Package: xterm Version: 276-1 Severity: minor Hi, a typical GNOME desktop has gnome-terminal installed and this should be the most prominent terminal application known to its users. Since version 276-1 the xterm package provides another two icons to start other te

Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

2011-10-18 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: xterm Version: 276-1 Severity: minor Hi, a typical GNOME desktop has gnome-terminal installed and this should be the most prominent terminal application known to its users. Since version 276-1 the xterm package provides another two icons to start other terminal applications, that are not