Package: sensible-utils
Version: 0.0.26
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/sensible-terminal
sensible-terminal has this code:
__sensible_candidate="sensible-terminal-$(echo "$XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" | tr
'[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')"
This looks like it's expecting to find a program with a name like
sensible-terminal-gnome in the PATH. That's achievable for the "major"
desktop environments like GNOME and KDE, but XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP is
allowed to be a colon-separated list of desktop environments.
This is intended as a way to say that desktop environment A is "like"
desktop environment B, so that A can have its own environment-specific
overrides, but if it doesn't express a preference then it gets the same
behaviour as B.
For example, Ubuntu's customized GNOME session sets
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=ubuntu:GNOME, which means that it uses settings from
e.g. ubuntu-mimeapps.list if it exists, falling back to
gnome-mimeapps.list otherwise. GNOME Classic behaves similarly.
For the behaviour that sensible-terminal seems to be aiming for, with
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=ubuntu:GNOME I would expect it to try to run
sensible-terminal-ubuntu first, then sensible-terminal-gnome, and
finally x-terminal-emulator.
smcv
