Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: jeremy.bi...@canonical.com X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Package Name: xdg-terminal-exec Version: git snapshot Upstream Author: Vladimir Kudrya License: GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Shell Description: user default terminal execution utility xdg-terminal-exec is an implementation of a proposed freedesktop.org specification for launching a user's default terminal app. Other Info -------------- I will maintain this with the Debian freedesktop.org team. Packaging is at https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/xdg-terminal-exec This solves a problem: currently you can use update-alternatives to choose a default terminal for a Debian system, but what happens when you have multiple users on the same Debian system with different preferences? I don't think the "proposed specification" has been fully drafted yet. There is some discussion at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/issues/54 and over the years in the xdg mailing list. More recently, the alpha for glib 2.76 (part of GNOME 44 Alpha) now supports xdg-terminal -exec and GNOME Terminal 3.46.7 includes the necessary metadata file. We might backport the glib feature to Debian Bookworm, but it is quite late in Bookworm's release process. The metadata would also need to be added to other terminal emulator apps and desktops that use glib would need to ship a metadata file with their preferred terminal emulators. There is no GUI way for users to override the preference; they would need to add/edit the config file in their home directory manually. More details in the README at https://github.com/Vladimir-csp/xdg-terminal-exec Thanks, Jeremy Bicha
