Re: powershell/gnome-terminal

[bob thestuff net]

Well, I dont think it it needs to be that complex.
Under file, there could be a new tab option. that way, the people who want
to use tabs just start up as many as they want, and the other people can
start them the normal way. Personally, I like both methods. Sometimes,
especially when copying, it is nicer to have two terminals up at once. at
other times, it is nicer to have a tab style setup. Being able to use both
at the same time would be a very good thing.

On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Miles Lane wrote:

> > Dermot Musgrove <dermot@glade.perl.connectfree.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Since I am sure there are a lot of folks who feel the way you do,
> > > I do believe a tabbed UI should go into gnome-terminal.  I'd just
> > > like it to not be the default view.
> >
> > Fair point again, although I guess that the tabs need not be shown until
> > a second term is started.
> 
> Yes, I suppose that the UI could work that way: the UI shown
> for the first window would look like the non-tab UI.  On the
> other hand, this might confuse users.  
> 
> Could the tabbed UI be done in such a way that executing
> gnome-terminal doesn't necessarily spawn a new program window?  
> Specifically, I suppose that when a gnome-terminal is launched, 
> it could check to see whether the "tab" option is enabled, then 
> check for a currently running gnome-terminal instance.  If so, 
> it could send a signal to that program instance to open another 
> terminal tab.  Then the second instance of gnome-terminal could 
> exit without ever displaying a window.  Perhaps this could be 
> done by making most of the program a module that gets loaded if 
> a new window needs to be displayed.  Then the "gnome-terminal" 
> executable could be a tiny stub program that checks for the 
> tab option setting and a pre-existing gnome-terminal process
> before loading the more program module and displaying a window.
> 
> One cool way "tabbed" and "non-tabbed" mode switching might be 
> done would be to have all opened standalone gnome-terminal windows
> collapse into a single window when the tabs option is enabled
> and the options dialog is closed.  A new gnome-terminal window
> would be displayed and then as each of the open gnome-terminal 
> windows gets "absorbed" a new would disappear.  The label on 
> each terminal's tab could be the text that was displayed on the
> standalone window's titlebar.  There might be other good ways
> of implementing this mode-switching UI.
> 
> The absorbing might be down by passing state information to the
> new "tab enabled" process.  The state would consist window text.
> 
> One tricky bit would be mode-switching when the separate 
> currently running gnome-terminal instances have different 
> options selected (text/background colors, transparency,
> background image and so on).  I suppose it's doable.  Each
> tab display could have separate display characteristics.
> That might be a bit confusing from a usability standpoint,
> though.
> 
> Any other thoughts?
> 
> Also, would you care to contact the gnome-terminal developers
> with these ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
>         Miles
> 
> 
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