TERM=gnome - a possible way out

[Harry Putnam]

Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> writes:

> I got an idea.  What about creating a new terminal type
> 'xterm-gnome' which will be just an alias to 'gnome' and setting
> TERM to that?  After all 'gnome' is just a slight extension of
> 'xterm'.  There is a hope that most other installations seeing
> unknown 'xterm*' will reduce that to 'xterm' anyway.  I am not
> sure how this will fare in practice but the current havoc
> should be somewhat reduced.

After looking thru the long discussion at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122815
I don't think gnome is just a slight extension.  Seems more like it
lacks some stuff too.

Have you read that discussion, it pretty interesting but kind of hard
for laymen like me to really follow.