Should we keep xfterm4

[Stephan Arts]

On 10/23/06, Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:
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> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> >>> Now that both exo and Terminal are part of xfce, what's the use of
> >>> xfterm4 anymore?
> >>>
> >>> xfterm4 is a derivative of xfterm, a simple shell wrapper I added in
> >>> xfce 3.x maybe 6 or 7 years ago...
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> >>> Let's get rid of it. At last as it is right now. Let just keep a wrapper
> >>> to "exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator"...
> >
> > I forgot to mention that the current implementation fails because of the
> > "$ESTRING" and causes the following error...
> >
> > Option "--execute/-x" requires specifying the command to run on the rest
> > of the command line
> >
> > So we need to do something about that anyway, thus my proposal to over
> > simplify xfterm4.
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> Ok, I've commited my changes/fixes, these scripts are deprecated anyway.

I am just curious, why do we keep them around for 4.4 then?

Cheers,

Stephan