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[MK <halfcountplus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:26:15 -0000
Matthieu Baerts <matttbe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> About your problem, simply edit the launcher and use this command :
>   gnome-terminal -e "MY_COMMAND"   <------------
> 
> PS : I hope that we will have your apology :-/

Right after someone learns to READ EVERYTHING before his/her defensive instincts kick in ;)
>From my bug-report:

>> If you choose not to run in terminal and just set the command, 
>>eg "gnome-terminal -e mc",  <-----------------------
>>cairo-dock just counts this as a terminal and jumps to the nearest one instead of launching the command.

Yet, "gnome-terminal -e mc" is totally different from "gnome-terminal -e
vim".  This remains true even if "should applications be grouped in a
sub-block is ticked".   So I go to click a launcher for vim, instead I
just get taken to an already open terminal running mc.

It cannot be that hard to make the choice of terminals configurable.
However, I respect the fact that I may not be in your "target audience",
and there is nothing wrong with that -- no point trying to please
everyone.

Keep on keeping on, and good luck with the project.  I'll be waiting...

--MK <halfcountplus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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terminal app dysfunctionalism
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493602
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Status in Cairo-Dock : Core: New

Bug description:
If I use "launch in terminal", cairo-dock uses an xterm instead of gnome-terminal.  The only way around this I have found is to move xterm and create a symlink in /usr/bin "xterm"->gnome-terminal.  

That is very hackish.  Does no one who uses cairo-dock use terminal apps??!?

If you choose not to run in terminal and just set the command, eg "gnome-terminal -e mc", cairo-dock just counts this as a terminal and jumps to the nearest one instead of launching the command.

This makes it totally useless for my purposes, which is a shame.  Big big oversight people.