lol, termcap. HELLO 2002!!!
More liek hello 1990s. Some of the entries in there belong to the 80s and 70s.
also, i believe desktop was the subject, not obsolete terminal compatibilities.
Believe it or not, some people routinely use the CLI. Are you telling me you don't? And what happens when shit goes wrong? You'll end up in the guts anyway.
But okay, if we're talking "Desktop", can I bitch a bit about the myriad toolkits that all look different, behave different, and don't have consistent themes? Copy/paste is a fine one too. And while we're at it, the 3D performance on my machine sucks.