Control: severity -1 important Hi,
Quoting Jeremy Bícha (2025-11-05 15:00:33) > I am surprised to see that reform-tools now installs this file: > /usr/share/xdg-terminal-exec/sway-xdg-terminals.list > > reform-tools isn't Sway. I'm worried about a possible future filename > conflict if some other package provides that file. agreed. > I am the maintainer of the xdg-terminal-exec package in Debian. I am > willing to have the xdg-terminal-exec package install that file (like > already happens for GNOME and Ubuntu) but we should probably get > approval from the sway package maintainer for its contents. (Or sway > could ship its own file.) I am not attached to the file being shipped by reform-tools and I agree with your argument that it probably should be living elsewhere. I kept sway maintainers in CC and would like to ask them if they want to ship the file some place. > Another alternative is for the Reform desktop to set a custom > XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP. For instance, Ubuntu has an Ubuntu session (with > /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/ubuntu.session and > /usr/share/wayland-sessions/ubuntu.desktop) that makes use of a GNOME > Shell feature (GNOME Shell session mode) to set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP to > ubuntu:GNOME. Then things like xdg-terminal-exec and gsettings > overrides can be set for Ubuntu without touching GNOME. It also > inherits GNOME settings (unless overriden by Ubuntu settings). This > might be complex to set up but there are some advantages if it can be > made to work. Oh interesting, I did not know about this mechanism and it might be interesting to explore this independent of where sway-xdg-terminals.list ends up living. I've searched for both files you mentioned to learn how it is done but they seem to be not part of Debian? Are they ubuntu-only? I am (positively) surprised you found this file-conflict-waiting-to-happen. How did you get note of it? Thanks! cheers, josch
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