Open travier opened 6 months ago
I'm a big fan of Prompt already, but I don't think it should be shipped along with gnome-terminal. Having two similar terminals in the menu would be unpolished. If Silverblue doesn't want to diverge from Workstation here, this should go on hold until they make a decision (which may mean waiting for GNOME, apparently).
From the quoted text, I presume you intend to ship it as a flatpak. That seems reasonable, however, I think there should still be something in the base image in case flatpak is broken somehow (rolling back wouldn't help if the problem is in /var
). I immediately thought of weston-terminal
as an ultra-basic fallback. It's currently part of the weston
package, but I guess it could be split out. It's also officially only a demo but would be better than nothing, and as long as it continues not to ship a .desktop file, it wouldn't be exposed in the UI, only usable via Alt+F2.
From my perspective, there must be a terminal app available at all times from the base image.
So for me there are only two options:
Prompt has been renamed to chergert/ptyxis.
Looks like the accessibility issues are being sorted out: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/02/29/accessibility-in-ptyxis/
Testing welcomed!
Imho Silverblue should just follow what workstation does in this regard.
The necessary VTE patches are available in Fedora 40 now (including a11y patches). Presumably Ptyxis package will land shortly.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
See:
Describe the solution you'd like
Replace the default terminal application with Prompt, or at least include it by default.
Describe alternatives you've considered
N/A
Additional context
Suggested for Workstation:
If Fedora Workstation does not want to include it, we can consider including it on top of the default terminal in Silverblue.