On Saturday 06 September 2003 16:04, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> "Vincent Meyer, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > xterm is installed if KDE or GNOME are not installed.
> > >
> > > So? xterm != rxvt. Anyway, xterm sucks.
> > >
> > > Like someone else said, why don't we remove Koffice and Mozilla's menu
> > > entries? Why, OO.o and Konq are already in the menu! No, that makes
> > > no sense. Policy is all graphical apps installed go in the menu. You
> > > violated that policy.
> >
> > As much as I have NEVER used rxvt - I have to agree with them. If it's a
> > graphical app, should be on the menu. If someone installs an app, they
> > then shouldn't have to dig for it in order to run it, or go to menudrake
> > to add it.
>
> at first, i strongly disagree with dadou violation of the packaging policy.
>
> but now i think that dadou thoughs is that we'll quite always install
> rxvt since it's required by drakconf, even if user has not asked for
> terminals.
>
> the long-term solution would be to have a perl binding for the vte
> widget that would enable us to get rid of the rxvt dependancy on
> drakconf.
Don't know if the other terminal emulators can't be used. Because it they can
than it is just an issue of changing rxvt to using the console used in
/etc/alternative
