tags 638196 + wontfix
thanks
On 2011-08-20 19:19 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> On 2011-08-20 18:34 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>>
>>> (as a general rule, ncurses maintains "vte" and "gnome" for users of
>>> VTE-based terminals).
>>
>> It's just not entirely trivial to use them because at least
>> gnome-terminal uses "xterm" by default and there are no options to
>> change this in its settings. But I digress.
>
> yes, and it doesn't appear that it'll be fixed anytime soon.
I can't speak for the Gnome and VTE maintainers, but part of the problem
is that "xterm" terminfo entry is available everywhere, while "gnome" is
not, potentially causing big trouble when you log in on remote systems.
Maybe we should ship gnome and gnome-256color in ncurses-base to
alleviate that problem.
> (I could digress on the way $TERM was broken in several vte-based
> terminals within the past year...)
Seeing your other mail, I now notice that e.g. Shift-F1 is indeed broken
in gnome-terminal with TERM=xterm.
>> Regarding the question at hand, would you consider adding kcbt to
>> xterm-color? If not, I'll probably close the bug since we're not going
>> to deviate from upstream here.
>
> From my point of view, xterm-color is a legacy entry - adding kcbt to
> it creates an expectation on the part of other users that the key "should"
> be recognized in whatever corresponds to a "standard" implementation.
Okay, tagging the bug as wontfix now. If nobody convinces me otherwise,
I'll close it in a few weeks.
Cheers,
Sven
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