Terminal desktop file name

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Thu Jun 23 17:04:25 UTC 2011


On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:39:53 +0200
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 
> We could leave everyhing as it is now then. It doesn't matter which
> one you choose as long as you only have one installed.

Why restrict people to only installing one?

> > or you want them both installed in
> > case one has a bug that prevents you from doing work?
> 
> I doubt average users really have two different programs installed in
> case one breaks. And if something breaks, you can easily install
> another terminal. But you cannot just install another email client,
> you need to configure it and if you are not using IMAP, you won't
> have your mail available. So this is much more critical - but I doubt
> that anybody has installed two mail clients for that unlikely case.

Sure. I agree the case moves further away from reality in apps that are
complex and need setup. But for example web browsers, people may need
several installed to test how a site they are desiging looks in webkit,
etc. 

> > Sounds like upstream might just rename Terminal to xfce4-terminal
> > and be done with it.
> 
> In that case we should rename the package and the binary, too.

Absolutely. 

kevin
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