Cannot use Konsole as default terminal application

Bug #162021 reported by Gioele Barabucci
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gnome-control-center
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Once Konsole is installed, it is not possible to select it as default terminal application in gnome-default-applications-properties.

Only Gnome Terminal and xterm are selectable.

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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :
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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

Confirmed.

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

You need a stanza like the following in gnome-default-applications.xml:
    <terminal>
      <_name>Konsole</_name>
      <executable>konsole</executable>
      <command>konsole</command>
      <icon-name>konsole</icon-name>
      <exec-flag>-e</exec-flag>
    </terminal>

I'm attaching a patch.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee: blueyed → nobody
status: In Progress → Confirmed
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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your report, you can select the "Custom" option and add the konsole command in there, not sure about adding it as one in the list of terminals, doesn't make too much sense for me, let see what the developers said. thanks.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Gioele Barabucci (gioele) wrote :

I know I can add it as a "Custom" terminal, but then, what is the point of having a "default application chooser" if I cannot choose the competing terminal emulator?

There should be a way to select one of the *installed* terminal applications, not just those that maintainer included in their application list.

PS: why did you set this bug to incomplete?

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

For getting more feedback.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Incomplete → New
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: New → Triaged
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Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (pochu) wrote :

Fixed upstream.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: New → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:2.21.92-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center (1:2.21.92-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream versions:
    about-me:
    - Fix widget tab order (lp: #41748)
    - Don't distribute the .desktop.in file
    - Port to gio
    appearance:
    - always apply the current GConf settings to the initially selected
      wallpaper so that we don't modify the settings if GConf state and
      the definition in backgrounds.xml are not identical
    - don't try to set shading and options in GConf when we're dealing with a
      read-only source
    common:
    - Handle broken pipe if thumbnailer crashes
    - Fix a small leak in the file transfer dialog
    - Use new Metacity function to render rounded metacity borders correctly
      (lp: #131189)
    default-applications:
    - use '...' syntax instead of $(...) for better portability
    display:
    - Escape strange hostnames that we want to use as GConf keys
      (see bug #517259 for a similar issue in gnome-settings-daemon)
    general:
    - Increase required metacity version to 2.21.21
    - Revert removal of FONTILUS and THEMUS
      substitution that occurred in r8452.
    Fixes distcheck.
    - remove obsolete checks
    - add gio-2.0 to general capplet flags for now; this part needs
      cleaning up in the next cycle
    - Add check for LIBSOUNDS.
    appearance:
    - Add a comment for translators
    - Make sure we're done with the dialog before we destroy it (lp: #189003)
    - Remove useless (with GIO-based Nautilus) 'Go to fonts folder' button
    at-properties:
    - Move capplet to main menu
    default applications:
    - Support --new-tab/--new-window for Iceweasel
    - Improve name and description for the visual AT autostarter (lp: #146918)
    - Add support for Terminator console (lp: #184635)
    - Add support for Konsole (lp: #162021)
    keybindings:
    - Move Launch Calculator to Desktop group
      and sort all launch_app keybing together
    keyboard:
    - Don't mark padding strings as translatable
    libbackground:
    - Use LIBBACKGROUND_{CFLAGS,...} instead of CAPPLET_... so we can use
      libbackground in gnome-settings-daemon too
    - Don't pass a GError to the gconf_client*() calls
      since we don't use it anyway
    libwindow-settings:
    - Expose missing metacity double-click actions
    mouse:
    - Set up the proper scale widgets to GtkSizeGroup in both tabs
    - Fix HIG compliance for spacing, borders, padding, alignment
      and sentence label
    sound:
    - Use the libsounds.la now that libsounds uses libtool
    shell:
    - Add missing full stops in the long description
    - Specify libtool versioning info
    network:
    - Don't mark padding strings as translatable
    themus:
    - Don't leak the ATK relation set
    typing break:
    - Add a comment for translators
    general:
    - Remove some cruft from the configure script and give libbackground
      its own settings
    updated translation
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated libmetacity requirement
  * debian/patches/95_desktop-effects-integration.patch:
    - don't translate gtk-preferences label (lp: #15...

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Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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