Re: thinking about backwards compatibility (important)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:
> i noted in some bug that i can't find now that "profterm" should accept
> the old gnome-terminal's -x argument.  i wasn't sure whether it should
> treat -e and -x identically to how the old gnome-terminal did.
> 
> i just realized that libgnome (and eel) have references to running
> gnome-terminal in gnome 1, so gnome-terminal really does need to act
> backwards compatible.

I patched profterm now to behave exactly like the old g-t with respect
to -e/-x (modulo bugs of course).

I also have it accepting --use-factory silently, until it's
implemented.

Havoc