On Sun, Apr 20, 2025 at 05:28:33PM +0100, Peter Duffy wrote:
> Assuming that this wasn't a definite problem which was noticed and
> corrected - then the only conclusion to which I can come is that
> several packages provide x-terminal-emulator, and during the first
> install, for some reason, zutty was the one which floated up to the
> surface and got picked as the default. If so - then I guess the problem
> is waiting to happen again.
>
> Personally, I'd tend to argue that zutty shouldn't provide x-terminal-
> emulator - at least as yet. The default terminal is just too vital a
> piece of linux functionality to allow the use of a terminal application
> which is picky about the underlying graphics hardware/software: zutty
> needs to be more robust and have some kind of failover in case of
> lower-spec graphics capability. But I'm sure that if I put those
> comments to those concerned, I'd be told that I didn't know what I was
> talking about :(

I think this would be a perfectly reasonable bug for the Debian BTS. In
fact, someone already raised it:

https://bugs.debian.org/1085228

However, it seems to have been treated narrowly in terms of whether
specific command line options were supported.

I am sure the priority is too high, and it should be set to 20:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zutty/-/blob/master/debian/zutty.alternatives?ref_type=heads

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#packages-providing-a-terminal-emulator

The question of how it gets resolved as an installation choice still
remains, however.