[Bug 1661211] Re: open new tab doesn't work as intended

2017-02-03 Thread Emiddio Esposito
ERRATA: in the workflow maybe some options like -x or --command should be added, sorry, but it doesn't change the use of --tab and --window. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1661211 Title

[Bug 1661211] Re: open new tab doesn't work as intended

2017-02-03 Thread Emiddio Esposito
I met this need working with ROS and its launch files. it is basically a middleware that allows you to launch more that one executable at the same time with some kind of xml file. The idea is to open each executable in a different tab so that you have only one window but with one tab for each exe

[Bug 1661211] Re: open new tab doesn't work as intended

2017-02-03 Thread Egmont Koblinger
I agree that these options are far from ideal. Could you please share your entire (desired) use case / workflow? It's hard for me to imagine how you'd use these options. Note that Ubuntu folks are extremely unlikely to create and maintain a patch for your feature request. gnome-terminal developme

[Bug 1661211] Re: open new tab doesn't work as intended

2017-02-02 Thread Emiddio Esposito
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 --windo

[Bug 1661211] Re: open new tab doesn't work as intended

2017-02-02 Thread Egmont Koblinger
The output of "gnome-terminal --help" is probably a bit poorly worded. The intent is that --tab opens a new tab in the window that was created by a preceding --window option of this very same "gnome-terminal" command line. E.g. gnome-terminal --window -- You received this bug notification beca

[Bug 1661211] Re: open new tab doesn't work as intended

2017-02-02 Thread Egmont Koblinger
(sorry, accidentally hit "Post") E.g. gnome-terminal --window --profile=asdf --tab --profile=qwer --tab --profile=zxcv Other than here, gnome-terminal does not keep track which of its windows was the "last opened" (which may not even exist by that time, so it'd need to be "most recent" instead,