Bug#458322: gnome-terminal: Please follow the GTK+/GNOME blinking cursor preference

Josh Triplett josh at freedesktop.org
Sun Dec 30 12:19:00 UTC 2007


Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.18.3-1
Severity: wishlist

GTK+ and GNOME have a gconf preference for whether cursors should
blink: /desktop/gnome/interface/cursor_blink .  However,
gnome-terminal has its own separate preference for whether its cursor
should blink.  Please consider just following the GTK+/GNOME
preference and removing the independent preference.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.20.1-2   utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii  gnome-terminal-data         2.18.3-1     Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.20.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0                2.20.2-1     Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                       2.7-5        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.20.1-2     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                 1:2.6.2-1    library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.14.4-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                 2.20.1.1-1   The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0                2.20.1.1-1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0              1:2.20.1-1   GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.12.3-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                   1:2.14.7-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.18.3-1     Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                    1.10-3       lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libstartup-notification0    0.9-1        library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                     1:0.16.11-1  Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.1.3-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.4-1    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  scrollkeeper                0.3.14-16    A free electronic cataloging syste

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.20.0-1   Help browser for GNOME 2

-- no debconf information






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