xterm not in KDE menus anywhere?

[Eli Wapniarski]

Linux is about freedom. If an application is installed and that application 
provides a menu item then that menu item should be displayed. Why anyone would 
want to use xterm over konsole is beyond me as well. Be that as it may, If a 
user decides to use xterm, its there choice. What makes no sense is to have to 
open konsole to run xterm.

Eli

On Wednesday 23 June 2010 03:20:53 John5342 wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 01:03, Richard Zidlicky <rz at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> It isn't supposed to show up in either. The relevant desktop file
> >> contains "NoDisplay=true" which according to [1] means it shouldn't be
> >> displayed. If anything this is a bug in gnome. Both kde and gnome have
> >> better alternatives. In the case of kde try konsole.
> > 
> > thanks for the hint.. so I have filed it against xterm.
> >  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=607018
> > 
> > Does it make sense for KDE to observe NoDisplay strictly? Eg should not
> > searching for xterm in the launcher work regardless of NoDisplay?
> 
> 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. So far as i am aware
> xterm is more of a legacy thing brought in by xdm. Either way if you
> desperately need to get hold of xterm in the meantime just type
> "xterm" into the search box on the kickoff launcher and it will come
> up with "Run xterm". selecting it will give you xterm...