On Sat, 09 Nov 2013 00:58:05 +0100 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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! Let me rephrase that in a way that is more productive: Would it be possible to use xdg-terminal or whatever is set as default handler for application/x-xdg-terminal-emulator to run the command? That may well have reduced functionality, but still might fit in with what the user set. kevin
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