Xterm takes up two menu items (xterm and uxterm) and doesn't provide any more functionality then gnome-terminal. In an installed setup, those two menu items make gnome-shell have 3 pages instead of 2 in my testing.
The comment in seeds for adding it is "Provide a backup terminal and complete X env.": Backup terminal - I don't think we really need a backup and we don't do it for other apps. There is always a VT and if someone wants to use a GUI they can install another terminal with gnome-software. complete X env. - Especially with us considering wayland, if it actually pulls in anything (that other packages don't) then we want to bring it in explicitly. Thanks! Bryan -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
