When trying to get Weston to run on a new system I was building up bit
by bit, I encountered a problem: when I started weston-terminal, it
would close a split second later. This turned out to be because
weston-terminal defaults to trying to spawn /bin/bash, which my
busybox-based system didn't have.
I can configure the terminal to use a shell I do have, of course, but I
think /bin/sh is a much friendlier default, because it's more likely to
exist (POSIX requires it), and will save people just trying to get
started with Weston from the confusing experience I had. I think it's
better overall that somebody who specifically wants /bin/bash has to
configure that (if they even have to — depending on how they're running
Weston, $SHELL might already be /bin/bash) than somebody who just wants
to see the terminal working debug why it won't launch at all.
I realise there might be a (small) backward compatibility concern here
as well, but I hope I've made the case for a friendlier default.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Alyssa Ross
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