ignores x-terminal-emulator

[Francois-Denis Gonthier]

The GIO sublibrary in GLib has a function called prepend_terminal_to_vector, which prepare a command line by prepending it with a valid X terminal name before executing it.

The function as distributed in Glib first search for gnome-terminal before trying several well-known terminal application.
I believe this is not acceptable in a distribution like Ubuntu, which supports the x-terminal-emulator alternative to set the preferred terminal to the user. As it is right now, gnome-panel simply ignores the chosen x-terminal-emulator as well as the GNOME preferred terminal application (and that is another bug!)

I don't know any other application which expose this bug other than gnome-panel. Glib applications in Ubuntu should default to x-terminal-emulator before trying any other kind of terminal emulator.

[Francois-Denis Gonthier (fdgonthier)]

I forgot to add that I'm reporting this bug against Ubuntu 9.10, netbook remix but the source code I have examined doesn't make me believe the bug is specific to Karmic or the netbook remix in any ways.

[Francois-Denis Gonthier (fdgonthier)]

That bug went from "New" to "Fix-Released". What was the "fix" and where has it been connected?

[dnord (dnord)]

It's rather annnoying bug, as it causes to open console applications in xterm instead of DE-specific terminal emulator, as there: https://askubuntu.com/questions/788736/open-vim-in-xfce4-terminal-from-thunar. The patch is trivial and just adds x-terminal-emulator into the list of considered by glib terminal emulators.