Bug#603865: gnome-terminal: New tabs don't inherit font size from currently active tab

[Lorenz Minder]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.30.2-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream


Hi,

When gnome-terminal is open (at, say 80x25 chars) and a new tab is
opened, the new tab has the same dimensions (80x25) but with the default
font size instead of the one of the old tab.  This resizes the window,
which is annoying.  It does not accomodate the usual reasons to change
the font size (which are either to cram more lines into a small space,
or to get better readability).

I think new tabs should inherit the font settings from the previous tab.
Note that new tabs already inherit other things, for example the
dimension (number of rows and columns) and the current working
directory, so this would also make it more consistent.

Even if this were a controversial change, it could still be implemented
as an option.

Best,
--L

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-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/dash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data           2.30.2-1   Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.30.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.88-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.28.1-5   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.2-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.20.1-2   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-2  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.28.3-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libvte9                       1:0.24.3-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                     1.6.4-2         userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                     2.30.1+webkit-1 Help browser for GNOME

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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