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

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Wed Oct 19 09:40:55 UTC 2011


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 instance emacs isn't). To pointedly *exclude* xterm, there
>>> should be some better justification than that it's not part of gnome.\
>
> ..snip
>
> you didn't answer my question - you only repeated your previous
> statement.
>

Only applications for which there is no appropriate replacement 
already provided as part of GNOME should show up in the GNOME menu.

xterm is replaced by GNOME's own gnome-terminal in every regard. When 
it comes to emacs, generally gedit is the editor bundled with GNOME, 
but emacs is so "special" in its UI that this may justify it showing 
up in GNOME's menu. Furthermore, emacs has to get explicitely 
installed and is thus present on the system by will of the 
administrator; xterm is installed by default.



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