Bug#879157: vim-common: Set NoDisplay=true for vim.desktop

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Thu Oct 19 22:37:55 UTC 2017


On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 06:27:47PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 5:34 PM, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > I don't think it's unreasonable to display vim in the menu. If you have
> > both vim and gvim installed, it ought to be easy to tell the difference,
> > but I don't see a good argument for hiding vim.desktop.
> 
> I use a terminal with tabs (gnome-terminal). I don't want to open a
> new terminal when I want to edit a file but either use my existing tab
> or open a new tab.

I *do* want to see terminal applications open in a new tab in an
existing terminal. That also applies to things like hitting the "edit"
button in It's All Text in Firefox.

- Josh Triplett



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