> gnome-terminal --title=foo

The terminal shows up with the title "Terminal". In (at least) 3.6 it was "foo" as I expect.

I have noticed bug #720693, but it is closed with NOTABUG, and this is clearly a regression - a documented and long-present flag no longer does what it says.

In 3.6 it set the default title, and since I'm not using dynamic titles it stayed that way. Now something apparently dynamically overrides this with another default that I have no control over.

As an alternative to reinstating the control over the default title, it would work just fine for me if --title simply disabled dynamic titles altogether. (I would actually welcome a way to turn that off, as there are some editors and shells in some dists that clobbers the title using that functionality.)