Rename Terminal to xfce4-terminal

Christoph Mende angelos at gentoo.org
Wed Jun 22 10:59:50 CEST 2011


On Mi, 2011-06-22 at 08:43 +0200, Nick Schermer wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> In Fedora it was suggested to rename the Name key from Terminal to
> "Xfce Terminal". I agree with this change since its not easy to
> distinguish terminals in the menu (the exo preferred one and the
> normal terminal as a start).
> 
> However the terminal name is also a bit unfortunate and I'm
> considering to rename the whole thing to xfce4-terminal. The old
> project is dead for a long time now and some distros already rename it
> (using --program-transform-name).

Considering there is xfdesktop, xfconf, xfwm4, ... why not xfterm?

> To do that properly not only a hand full of changes in the code is
> required, the package needs to be renamed as well (new download
> location, new package names in distros, changed git location.. etc).
> 
> Do other think this is worth the effort? And can distros provide a
> clean migration path for this?

I don't actually mind one way or the other, if it's going to be changed,
there's no problem for Gentoo to follow.
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