Re: [Vala] Get default terminal emulator?

[PCMan <pcman tw gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Thomas Jollans <t jollybox de> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> How do I get the user's default terminal emulator with GLib/GIO? I would
> assume it involves GLib.AppInfo in some way, but it's not as straightforward
> as that since there isn't really a MIME type associated with opening a
> terminal window as far as I know.
>
> Is there even a freedesktop-standard way of doing this? On GNOME, I imagine
> one could go into the depths of GSettings, but can that work for non Gnome
> users? On Debian/Ubuntu, running x-terminal-emulator will get you the system
> default, but that doesn't exist on other systems and disregards the user's
> preferences.
>
> Thanks
> Thomas
> _______________________________________________

Unfortunately, no. They hard-coded a list of well-known terminal
emulators, and try them one by one.
This is what GAppInfo does in glib/gio. The worst thing is, there is
no config option for this.
The config value in gconf/gsettings does not change the behavior of GAppInfo.
The glib/gio devs know this, but they just did not fix it.