Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Fri, 2013-11-08 at 14:06 +0200, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote: >> 2013/11/7 Christian Schaller <cschalle@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> > Ok, so I guess the solution would be for the launcher to do something >> > like this: >> > >> > gnome-terminal --geometry 80x37 --disable-factory --role=bitchx >> > --class=bitchx --name "bitchX IRC" --title "BitchX IRC" >> > >> >> Isn't the Terminal attribute of desktop files[1] supposed to tell the >> launcher program that it should start the application inside a >> terminal? My impression is that Gnome at least used to support it, and >> I know that KDE does support it. It should quite easily allow >> specifying launchers for terminal-based programs that do not usually >> need command line arguments. >> >> [1] >> [http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html > > GNOME supports the Terminal key just fine. But just having your commandd > run in a terminal is not quite enough to give it an identity as a > separate application - to the rest of the system it will appear just as > a terminal. The extra arguments that Christian shows there help to > overcome this problem. But they hardcode the terminal application to gnome-terminal, which is unacceptable! Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
