We are in the same boat. I'm just pointing out that in the concept of
proposed spec having ExecArg is not always mandatory and having
TerminalEmulator category is mandatory.
On 16/07/2024 10.53, Manuel Schneider wrote:
I am not arguing against it either. I just want it to happen.
Preferably soon.
My personal motivation is my app Albert launcher. Currently I need the
fragile heuristics mentioned before and an in app configuration of the
user terminal to be used for several actions. This is terribly time
consuming and impossible to get right. If we had the ExecArg I could
at least guarantee the functionality of this feature and delegate
responsibility to desktop entry authors in case of failures.
Ofc I'd prefer your proposal to be merged, because then I could even
delegate the choice of the terminal to the system. But compared to
this "convenience" I'd be happy to have it "working at all". But given
the fact that your proposal lingers around for 5 years I thought we
could probably speed it up by going step by step. IIUC your proposal
is a dedicated standard which relies on changes to the desktop entry
spec. Having this single key added to the desktop spec in near future
seems to be more realistic. It is a requirement for your proposal
anyway, so we are in the same boat, aren't we?
Since I am not familiar with the XDG realm I struggle to find out
where to start a discussion to get things off the ground. You sent
your PR long time ago. Has there been a discussion or such anywhere?
