[Mageia-dev] Proposal: add script to desktop-common-data to find text editor

[Damien Lallement]

Le 03/05/2012 05:56, David Walser a écrit :
> In the Mageia default IceWM configuration, we have button launchers for a terminal emulator, text editor, and web browser.
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> For the terminal emulator, it uses the xvt script from desktop-common-data to find an appropriate xterm or rxvt-like thing.
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> For the web browser, it uses the www-browser script from desktop-common-data to use your default web browser from your desktop settings.
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> For the text editor, it has emacs hard-coded.  This doesn't actually work if the "emacs" package isn't installed.
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> dams tried to fix this by changing it to something that also didn't work, and I complained, so he reverted that change.  Now he has the icewm package suggest "emacs" so that it will work, so at least it works now.
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> However, even being an emacs guy, I'm not thrilled about that solution either, because I don't actually install "emacs" or want it, I only install and use "emacs-nox" and I don't want to have to keep uninstalling the suggest-pulled-in emacs package after every upgrade now.
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> I don't want to just complain without providing an alternative, so my idea was to write another script, which should go in desktop-common-data, called xte (a.k.a. X Text Editor, just like xvt, a.k.a. X Virtual Terminal), which will choose an appropriate text editor to run from several choices.
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> I don't know the exact procedure to commit something to the desktop-common-data package (in /soft in SVN), so I'm attaching the script here.

I was working on the same script (needed for iceWM for example).
Thank you for it, I updated desktop-common-data and will now update 
icewm package to use it and so remove 'emacs' as a suggests.
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Damien Lallement
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