Bug#645736: Please hide xterm and uxterm icons from the GNOME menu

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> Am 19.10.2011 11:28, schrieb Thomas Dickey:
>> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 19.10.2011 10:23, schrieb Thomas Dickey:
>>>> Without further qualifications then, you appear to be suggesting that
>>>> only
>>>> applications which are part of gnome should be allowed to show up
>>>> in its
>>>> menus (for instance emacs isn't). To pointedly *exclude* xterm, there
>>>> should be some better justification than that it's not part of gnome.\
>> 
>> ..snip
>> 
>> you didn't answer my question - you only repeated your previous
>> statement.
>> 
>
> Only applications for which there is no appropriate replacement already 
> provided as part of GNOME should show up in the GNOME menu.

actually, looking through my .desktop files, I'm not seeing that this
advice is being followed.

Back to my point: why are you singling out xterm?

> xterm is replaced by GNOME's own gnome-terminal in every regard. When it

that's an untruthful comment, of course.

bye

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