Bug#679209: Opening a normal terminal when root terminal is open does not work

[Bas Wijnen]

Control: reassign -1 gnome

Hi,

I'm just reading through these bug reports.  I always use Gnome classic,
so I haven't encountered this bug myself.

However, I think part of it is not a bug at all, and part of it is a bug
in Gnome, not in the terminal:

Gnome 3 (non-classic) has a different way of handling applications.
When selecting to open an already open application, the intended
behaviour is to focus that window, not to open a new one.  You may not
like it, but that is not a bug; it's an intentional feature.

So the question is whether a terminal and a root terminal are the same
application.  Technically they are, intuitively they aren't.  I don't
know the Gnome team's opinion on the proper behaviour here.

The bug is that it is different: if I read this right, then a root
terminal is not considered the same thing as a terminal (so it can be
opened when a terminal is open), but a terminal is the same thing as a
root terminal (so it cannot be opened "normally").  One of these is a
bug; the Gnome team should decide which one.  But whichever it is, the
bug is in Gnome, not in gnome-terminal.

Thanks,
Bas
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