The decision was already made. However, the current icons for xterm haven't
been discussed.
The only comments have been made based on the pre-SVG icons (and Bicha's
comments about
the website got half of the information incorrect - at a minimum he should have
based his
comments on the source and timeline). See
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.icon.html
If there's any constructive comments to be made, that also might be
interesting.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129041
Title:
xterm icon available by default
Status in Ayatana Design:
New
Status in “ubuntu-gnome-default-settings” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “xterm” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “xterm” package in Debian:
New
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UXTerm share a rather old, outdated icon and very few users will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
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