Bug#821090: gnome-terminal: x-terminal-emulator doesn't pass all args to gnome-terminal

[Debian Live user]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 3.14.1-1+deb8u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

x-terminal-emulator doesn't pass all args to gnome-terminal that are described
in "man x-terminal-emulator" - at least --hide-menubar and --show-menubar are
suppressed


   * What led up to the situation?
F10 key bound to menubar of gnome-terminal which 'sucks'. I looked for a
solution - easiest appears to run gnome-terminal with --hide-menubar.
with x-terminal-emulator this switch didn't work (vs man page!), so I vi-ed x
-terminal-emulator.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I vi-ed x-terminal-emulator and added the lines
"elsif ($opt eq '--hide-menubar')
     {
         push(@args, '--hide-menubar');
     }"
right before the closing
"}" of "while ($opt = shift(@ARGV))"

   * What was the outcome of this action?
x-terminal-emulator works as expected

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
not needing to manually edit a package to meet the specs/functionality man
pages describe


I think this needs to be addressed by the package maintaners, not the single
user. Please pass all parameters a user gives to gnome-terminal (only filter or
change what's needed).


Thank you


P.S. upstream bug: "--usage" as in "man gnome-terminal" isn't supported
(anymore) by gnome-terminal itself



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-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
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  gconf-service                                3.2.6-3
ii  gnome-terminal-data                          3.14.1-1+deb8u1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.14.1-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18+deb8u3
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libdconf1                                    0.22.0-1
ii  libgconf-2-4                                 3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+deb8u4
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a                      3.14.1-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libuuid1                                     2.25.2-6
ii  libvte-2.91-0                                0.38.1-2
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-3

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  gvfs      1.22.2-1
ii  yelp      3.14.1-1

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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