> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 04:00:05 +0000
> From: Ken Moffat <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [blfs-dev] terminals
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 08:30:00PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > 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.
> >
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> I have no objection to removing either of these.
>
> <inflammatory comment>But you missed one - rxvt-unicode aka urxvt :
> actually, I would be happy if we removed xterm (and luit) because
Yes, it has 'baggage' (& ~poor defaults), but I'd suggest keeping xterm -
not least as an ~expected part of basic/core x environment; cf twm .
> rxvt-unicode is so much better (when pointed to a sensible set of
> fonts)</>
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>
akh
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