[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Hardcode env variable TERM to xterm #2394

[Simon Schampijer]

On 10/07/2010 10:31 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 21:24, Sascha Silbe
> <sascha-ml-reply-to-2010-3 at silbe.org>  wrote:
>> Excerpts from simon's message of Wed Oct 06 14:11:04 +0200 2010:
>>
>>> Patch needed in 0.90
>> AFAICT it's needed on Fedora 14, not Sugar 0.90.
>> Are we sure yet this was an intentional change by libvte and not just a
>> mistake? In the latter case we should probably make the setting depend
>> on specific libvte versions so we don't break if they decide to use a
>> different set of control codes (=>  different $TERM) in the future.
>
> Agreed, I think we should understand well what's going on before
> accepting a hack upstream. If we confirm that we need that hack, then
> we should put that information in a ticket and reference it from the
> code.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu

Agreed, I first thought it was another issue when reading other comments 
about it.

I have nailed it down as the following so far:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631589

Regards,
    Simon