Bug#504463: gnome-terminal: Command-line way to open new tab in existing terminal

[Josh Triplett]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.22.3-3
Severity: wishlist

I'd like to have some way of opening a new tab in an existing
terminal.  This would make it possible to create keyboard shortcuts to
open a new terminal tab (rather than a new window), and to script
opening a program in a new tab (such as a non-GUI editor).

Ideally I'd like some way to make gnome-terminal do this by default,
so that any program that attempts to open a new terminal will end up
creating a new tab in my existing terminal window.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data        2.22.3-3      Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.22.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libc6                      2.7-15        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.2-1     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.6-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0                2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.20.1.1-2    The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.11-4     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.13-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.5-3      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.9-1         library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                    1:0.16.14-4   Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.4-2     X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  rarian-compat [scrollkeepe 0.8.1-1       Rarian is a documentation meta-dat

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  yelp                          2.22.1-8   Help browser for GNOME 2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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