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[Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

El día Wednesday, August 12, 2015 a las 12:41:12PM -0400, Robert Schroll escribió:

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Matthias Apitz <guru@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> >     after changing in the file mutt.click/ubuntu-mutt-app.desktop
> >     Terminal=false
> > 
> >     the register goes fine, the icon is in the Applications but do 
> > not work :-(
> 
> As far as I know, there's no way to make Terminal applications run 
> directly from Unity 8.  The options I see are:
> 1) Open the terminal app and launch your application from the command 
> line.
> 2) Create a GUI app with a terminal emulator that launches your command 
> line application instead of a shell.  Presumably, you could copy much 
> of the terminal app to do this.
> 
> I have no idea if support for terminal apps is on a roadmap.  Perhaps 
> someone else can comment here.

Hello Robert && Oliver,

The *.desktop file has a value:

Terminal=false

which gives an error on registering if set to 'true'. I think there is
just a missing feature in Unity 8 and it should (when set to 'true')
just start something like

   terminal -e foo

where 'foo' is the value from the 'Exec=foo' parameter of the .desktop
file. This way it works in all other desktop I'm used to use.

Is this something which was never considered to implement? Should I file
a bug report for this or do we have one already?

For the moment, I can live with what I have: I just start the terminal
and there some shell script which sets the environment and starts mutt
fine; but this is not what I wanted to deliver as a click app :-(

In any case, I learned some details and I'm very thankful for your
helping hands.

	matthias

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