launching a terminal

From: Armel Asselin (armelasselin_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:06:31 +0100

Hello,

I'm quite new to the Linux world. I want to launch a graphical terminal with
some command inside, my dev machine is under gnome, so i did that:
gnome-terminal -e command
however other people may not have gnome-terminal? what is best practice in
this case? for exemple, the framework I use tried 'xterm ...' but Debian has
no xterm by default.
Should I try to launch "which" commands with some console that I know and
then select the one I prefer from those that are there or is there some /etc
file or so which would describe what to launch?

Best regards
Armel

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