Hi, [email protected] seems to be disfunctional. I'm forwarding this to the maintainers directly.
Thanks! cheers, josch Quoting Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues (2025-11-06 10:43:05) > 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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