Why ubuntu-desktop depends on xdiagnose and xterm

Ma Xiaojun damage3025 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 2 09:19:40 UTC 2013


On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> i think xdiagnose doesnt need to be shown in any menus (though that
> would be a matter of the maintainer (hey bryce !) to hop into this
> discussion and comment, i dont think the .desktop file was added just
> because it is shiny, there is surely a reason for it's existence)

Got it.

> xterm is used by many people doing development on ubuntu as a preferred
> terminal over gnome-terminal, so i dont think we can or should hide it
> if we don't want to put off people using ubuntu as a platform for their
> development tasks.

Well, I know there are people have good reasons to prefer xterm over
gnome-terminal.
However, there are also plenty of people don't bother to know what is
terminal in the their entire life.
Though there doesn't seem to have a good solution to satisfy both groups.



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