My source for the "icons are less pixelated on the website" comment was http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12210364&postcount=3 which preceded your version 282 by 3 weeks.
Thomas, I appreciate you maintaining xterm for the past 16 years, but I think you have a hard time understanding that xterm just isn't very popular today even among terminal users like I am. I'm definitely not the only one that doesn't appreciate the xterm icons showing up in the default menus. See the attached Debian bug or http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/2012/06/30/xterm-on-ubuntu-12-04 -manages-to-party-like-its-1989/ for instance. The technical issue for this bug has nothing to do with how awesome xterm is, but how well integrated it is with the modern Ubuntu desktop (whether Unity, GNOME Shell, GNOME Classic, or XFCE). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xterm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129041 Title: xterm icon available by default Status in Ayatana Design: New Status in “xterm” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xterm” package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: The Ubuntu 11.10 desktop by default has three terminals in the Dash labeled respectively as: Terminal, XTerm, and UXTerm. This is rather confusing for users who are told to just run a terminal. XTerm and UXTerm share a rather old, outdated icon and very few users will prefer using them to using the standard, full-featured GNOME Terminal. XTerm apparently is used by Ubuntu's failsafe mode and so must be present by default. My Proposed fix: 1.Add NoDisplay=true to the end of these 2 files: sudoedit /usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop sudoedit /usr/share/applications/debian-xterm.desktop 2. Run sudo update-desktop-database 3. Log out and log back in. 4. Type "term" into the Dash, xterm and uxterm should not show. 5. Close the dash and type Alt+F2, now type "xterm" and "uxterm". The app shows with its icon. When run, the icon will show in the launcher and the Alt-Tab switcher. This fixes the problem mentioned in comment #10. When the app is running, it's also possible to right-click on the app to lock to launcher in Unity or add to favorites in GNOME Shell. If you're using GNOME Classic, you can easily use Alacarte to unhide xterm. This should be a good compromise between most users who don't need the clutter of the extra terminals and the ones who actually do want to run xterm. Also xterm has been hidden by default for many releases now and I personally consider their presence now a UI regression, not an improvement. --Jeremy Bicha To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/129041/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
