unaccessability

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Sat Nov 16 20:50:11 UTC 2013


On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 10:44 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 02:42 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> >
> >> As for setting the preferred terminal emulator, the user's desktop's system
> >> settings should include that. (KDE System Settings does under "Workspace
> >> Appearance and Behavior" / "Default Components".)
> >
> > But the point is that this is not, AFAICT, standardized in any way:
> > there's no XDG spec for how such a preference should be stored or read.
> > So there's no simple, trouble-free, desktop-agnostic way to simply say
> > 'run the user's preferred terminal emulator'.
> >
> > GNOME has a few 'preferred apps' settings left but I don't think they're
> > exposed in the UI anywhere.
> 
> Look at System Settings -> Details

Oh, hey, look. That place is rapidly becoming the 'crap, we don't know
where to put this' dumping ground for GNOME 3, isn't it?
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