xterm not in KDE menus anywhere?

Thomas Janssen thomasj at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 23 13:14:17 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Richard Zidlicky <rz at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> It's not my decision to make but personally i think it makes perfect
>> sense to keep xterm hidden. Why anybody would want it when konsole
>> does the same thing but fits into kde better is beyond me and keeping
>> it hidden reduces confusion for users who have would otherwise have
>> two console apps that do the same thing but if they select xterm by
>> accident get (comparatively) missing features.
>
> I do not care how deeply it is hidden in whichever menus but it should be
> easy to add to the favorites and desktop. In F12 I did not find a way to add
> it to favorites as did could not figure out any other way to add it to the
> desktop than manually crafting a desktop file.
>
> There are sure many nice alternatives but it does what I need and I got used
> to what I use since 1990... as far as I remember without a single segfault.
> I also expect to copy my dotfiles and have my expected behaviour without any
> novelties.

You sound like a old-skool linuxer so i guess you know how to edit a
.desktop file. 99.9% don't need/want xterm to show up in the menu so
it's hidden in both big Desktops.

-- 
LG Thomas

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