Package: gnome-core Version: 1:47+1 Control: block -1 by 1083281 I would like to see Ptyxis be the default terminal for GNOME for Debian Trixie.
Compared to GNOME Console, Ptyxis has many more configurable options. Compared to GNOME Terminal, Ptyxis is closer aligned with GNOME design principles. Ptyxis uses GTK4 (although GNOME Terminal will eventually too). Ptyxis also has integrated support for several container systems. This support is hidden unless it detects that containers are installed. The GNOME Developers are taking a different approach with Ptyxis than they did with GNOME Console. GNOME switched their default terminal to Console but most major distros did not follow. With Ptyxis, distros are switching first. I expect once sufficient distros have adopted Ptyxis, GNOME Core will change to reflect the new consensus. So far, Fedora and CentOS 10 (still in development) have switched. Note that Ptyxis includes a build option to change the branding from Ptyxis to Terminal which we will enable when we switch. Because we don't have an upgrade script that can swap defaults, we can't keep an alternate dependency on gnome-terminal to allow people to keep the old default without installing the new app. (This is similar to what we did when we switched from gedit to gnome-text-editor). I believe Ptyxis offers sufficient feature compatibility with Terminal that it won't cause too much interruption to our users. However, we don't yet have a way to migrate preferences from Terminal. We could add a dh-user-session-migration to try to copy select gsettings values but I'm not sure if the benefit/risk ratio is good enough. I am aware of one blocking issue I would like to see solved before we make this switch and have added the block. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
