Bug 1174918

Summary: regresion: right-click in gnome-terminal no longer offers "open new tab" option
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Paul Wouters <pwouters>
Component: gnome-terminalAssignee: Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
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Description Paul Wouters 2014-12-16 18:22:52 UTC
Description of problem:

after f20 -> f21 upgrade, right-click in gnome-terminal no longer offers "open new tab" option.

Comment 1 Andreas Nilsson 2015-01-21 17:24:34 UTC
The Open Terminal action will open in a new tab if you've set "Open new terminals in Tab" in the Preferences. If it's set to "Open new terminals in Window", pressing Ctrl when clicking the menu will also trigger a new tab. So the action is still there, but slightly more hidden.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-terminal/commit/?id=99fc0136a5be6323b81b8b339482bc699b53e1f9

Relevant upstream bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=543996

Comment 2 Paul Wouters 2015-01-21 21:11:23 UTC
I am aware of the change. But I consider it a bug.

Sometimes I want to open a new tab. Sometimes i want to open a new window.

Space in the right-click menu option is not at a premium. There is no good reason for removing this choice.

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Comment 4 Knut J BJuland 2015-11-27 16:31:04 UTC
Still present in F23

Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2015-11-30 18:07:04 UTC
Take it upstream, please. Keeping this bug open is not helping anybody. We're not going to carry a distro patch for this.