Bug#362156: gnome-terminal: Get rid of tab X buttons, or make
them optional!
Jamm!n Wheeler
jammin at life.eu.org
Wed Apr 12 15:20:38 UTC 2006
Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.14.0-1
Severity: normal
In a recent update to gnome-terminal, X (close) buttons have appeared on
every tab. There appears to be no way to switch them off. This is a bug,
because (in increasing order of annoyance) :-
(a) it's a waste of precious space in the tab; less title can be displayed
(b) do you really close terminals so often that you need a button to do it?
What exactly are you doing, opening a terminal, typing one command and
then closing it again?
(c) there are a million other ways of closing a terminal. My favourite
is to explicitly type 'exit' or 'logout' or ^D, but you could also select
close from the menu. All of these are deliberate actions, you can't
do them accidentally, unlike clicking a button.
(d) closing a terminal tab should *not* be a one-click operation,
because you are not asked for confirmation and it's not possible
to resume or recover what was on the screen if you accidentally
close it.
(e) having the close button *on the tab*, where I have to click to
*select* the tab, is an accident waiting to happen. It didn't have to
wait very long to happen to me, I accidentally closed an important
tab within about 15 minutes of this "feature" appearing.
*Please* get rid of them or let me switch them off!
I consider this feature to be a bug which severely affects the usability
of the program. In fact I will have to look for a different tabbed terminal
program to use until this is resolved, because the risk of critical
data loss is too great.
Ben
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-qolc-2006033005
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.12.3-2 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii gnome-terminal-data 2.14.0-1 Data files for the GNOME terminal
ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.14.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.3.6-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.14.0-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomeui-0 2.14.0-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.14.0-2 GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.16-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.0-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libstartup-notification0 0.8-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libvte4 1:0.12.0-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-10.1 A free electronic cataloging syste
Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii yelp 2.12.2-4 Help browser for GNOME 2
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