[Bug 501192] Re: ignores x-terminal-emulator

[dnord]

It's rather annnoying bug, as it causes to open console applications in
xterm instead of DE-specific terminal emulator, as there:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/788736/open-vim-in-xfce4-terminal-from-
thunar. The patch is trivial and just adds x-terminal-emulator into the
list of considered by glib terminal emulators.

** Patch added: "Adds x-terminal-emulator-support to glib "open in terminal emulator" functionality"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/501192/+attachment/4947233/+files/x-terminal-emulator-support.patch

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Title:
  ignores x-terminal-emulator

Status in glib2.0 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  The GIO sublibrary in GLib has a function called
  prepend_terminal_to_vector, which prepare a command line by prepending
  it with a valid X terminal name before executing it.

  The function as distributed in Glib first search for gnome-terminal before trying several well-known terminal application. 
  I believe this is not acceptable in a distribution like Ubuntu, which supports the x-terminal-emulator alternative to set the preferred terminal to the user. As it is right now, gnome-panel simply ignores the chosen x-terminal-emulator as well as the GNOME preferred terminal application (and that is another bug!)

  I don't know any other application which expose this bug other than
  gnome-panel. Glib applications in Ubuntu should default to x-terminal-
  emulator before trying any other kind of terminal emulator.

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