I know we previously had issues where gnome-terminal could fail to work
reliably under certain bad driver cases (it was the case for virtual
machines for some time). I think these issues haven't been a problem for
some time though.

+1 from me for removal.

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 4:34 AM Bryan Quigley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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
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