Re: Terminal addition to Terminfo Database

[IFo Hancroft]

Thank you for the fast reply!

This is a good point!

I presume the best course of action would be to convince the developers 
to make Termite present itself as termite as opposed to xterm-termite 
and edit its terminfo according to the one already in the database, also 
if Termite does start using upstream VTE, edit its terminfo to match 
VTE's and update it in the Database as well?

Best Regards,
IFo Hancroft

On 10/7/19 1:56 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:39:24AM +0300, IFo Hancroft wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am IFo!
> >
> > I would like to propose Termite's inclusion in the Terminfo Database.
> > Termite is a popular keyboard centric VTE based terminal.
> >
> > It has been brought to my attention that termite is already present in the
> > Terminfo Database but as 'termite'. Termite presents itself as xterm-termite
> > and currently we have to manually add Termite's terminfo to the Terminfo
> > Database on every server we ssh to using it.
>
> That's a problem which its developers ought to fix.
>   
> > I have checked the two from the database using infocmp -1 and diff and there
> > are few slight differences between the one that Termite presents
> > (https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/termite.terminfo) and the
> > one already in the database, so I am not sure if my proposition would be
> > suited as a file rename and would probably require a terminfo addition and
> > maybe removal of the other.
> >
> > Let me know if there are any problems with the terminfo posted above
> > preventing it from inclusion in the database.
>
> That's not going to happen, because it's not xterm.
>
> https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html#tic-termite