I would like to cut down the number of packages in BLFS. The maintenance
burden is tremendous and we have lots of duplication of capabilities.
When it comes to terminals, we have:
xterm
gnome-terminal
xfce4-terminal
lxterminal
qterminal
konsole4
konsole5
I propose that we remove konsole4 and gnome-terminal.
We already want to remove as much of KDE4 as we can in favor of kf5 and
plasma. There are a few packages that use KDE4, notably k3b and amarok,
but konsole5 has the look and feel of konsole4 and the build of the KF5
libraries is essentially the same as building kdelibs although the
technique is very different.
We removed the gnome desktop some time ago because of its dependency on
systemd. I have had problems running gnome-terminal and have isolated the
problem to an issue with dbus. For me, I have to launch
gnome-terminal using 'dbus-launch gnome-terminal' either from the command
line or changing the .desktop file. Why a terminal app needs dbus is
beyond my understanding. None of the other terminals need it. I suppose
it is something to do with the gnome desktop. In addition, gnome-terminal
refuses to start without a utf-8 LANG setting. Again, none of the other
terminals have this restriction.
Unless there are objections, I will archive these packages later this week.
-- Bruce
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