It still seems to me than a set of features poorly designed. You can see that by playing around with the two option: "--window" e "--tab"
a command like "gnome-terminal --window --tab" does exactly the same as "gnome-terminal --tab --tab" but a different thing from "gnome-terminal --window --window" Still, alone, "gnome-terminal --window" and "gnome-terminal --tab" do exactly the same thing, leaving multiple option for the same outcome (having a new window with multiple tab) but noone for the possbile outcome of having a new tab in an existing window. Keeping track of the window in which open the new tab could be as simple as adding an id to the profile (since --tab uses the Default profile, but --tab-with-profile also exist). The id could be used to connect to the window and send the command to open the tab(s), and everytime a new window gets opened the profile will be updated. It seems to me that would be much more interesting to treat this as a bug, with the help written with the intended functionality, than to consider the help written in a bad way. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1661211 Title: open new tab doesn't work as intended Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: According to the help (output of "gnome-terminal --help-terminal"), if i use the "--tab" option a new tab will be opened in the last window opened from the default profile. But, again, if i try to use the command " gnome-terminal --tab ", a new window will be opened, and it will not open it in the newest window with the default profile ( the wrong behavious happens if the latest opened window is the same on which the command is run and it also happens if it isn't ). I don't know if it help, but a similar bug with mate-terminal (which has similar options) has been reported and, according to the tracking, resolved and came up again and resolved again (???) https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-terminal/issues/45 https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-terminal/issues/96 Thank you very much. Some info: "lsb_release -rd" : Description: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS Release: 14.04 "apt-cache policy gnome-terminal" : gnome-terminal: Installato: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 Candidato: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 Tabella versione: *** 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Expected: using "gnome-terminal --tab" opens a new tab in an existing window Actual Result: using "gnome-terminal --tab" opens a new window To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1661211/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
