Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
   Installing gnome-terminal and trying to launch it from the LXDE menu

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
     Added LXDE; to Last line of file /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Terminal.desktop then logged out and logged back in.

* What was the outcome of this action?
It worked.

Am 15.05.2016 um 19:30 schrieb Lubo Diakov:

LXDE is dead upstream (has been replaced by LXQt). So I'm not convinced
it makes sense to add this for LXDE now.

I wonder if it would make sense to drop
debian/patches/01_onlyshowin.patch completely.

This patch was added as other desktop environments usually install their
own preferred terminal, in case of lxde this is lxterminal.

Having multiple terminals in the menu could be confusing.

Michael

Ok, I must have missed that news. My question would then be, is there
some harm to adding it so it works now, until all former LXDE users
migrate to LXQT or something else? Even if it means reverting that
later, when there is no LXDE package? We are talking about 5 extra
letters "LXDE;" in 1 single text file, and it will not affect any
other desktop environment in any way. And if not, what will be done
if/when LXQT or any newer DE currently not supported comes along? I
understand whitelisting only DEs that are known to be compatible and
actively developed, but up to a point. Surely there are more than 2
viable DEs in existence? Maybe only they meet some quality cutoff, but
it seems somewhat arbitrary without having an idea what the cutoff is.

Yes, please. Having every program that is technically compatible show
up without jumping through unneeded hoops. Anyone who installs 2 or
more should be tech. savvy enough to know why he/she did it, i.e. the
other one has a feature they need.

Only to rank beginners, and that can be mitigated somewhat by clear
concise explanations/titles in the menu and hints. E.g. if instead of
calling itself "Terminal" as if there is only one (echoes of
Highlander in my head) it would specify "gnome terminal, a terminal
emulator for X11 implemented by gnome, with perhaps the upstream URL
for FAQs, if needed"

Hi! With my Qt/KDE maintainer hat here.

Actually today we had a user wanting to launch gnome-terminal from
Plasma and wasn't able due to this patch.

[snip]

But users should still be able to run the applications they want using
their desktop launcher. So that patch is indeed causing a bug.

I agree with this.