GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 765780
Option to disable hyperlink special treatment
Last modified: 2016-05-08 08:19:01 UTC
In the gnome-terminal all hyperlinks are underlined and when right-clicking on them one is presented options to open or copy the link address, however I believe that there should be an option to disable this functionality so that hyperlinks are just treated as any other text would be treated. I initially suggested this here but thought I should also do so upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1576397
(In reply to cooks.go.hungry from comment #0) > In the gnome-terminal all hyperlinks are underlined on mouseover > and when right-clicking > on them one is presented options to open or copy the link address Yup, and newest gnome-terminal (3.20; to be included in Ubuntu 16.10, or available for Xenial from Gnome3 Staging) also shows additional info if you right-click on a number, see screenshot in bug 741728. Would you disable this as well? > however I > believe that there should be an option to disable this functionality Why?
Well, personally it's because I deal with blacklists of malicious websites and use grep to search through the lists and having it so that I can accidentally click on one of those links is a bad thing for me so an option to disable it would be nice (I have a bit of a faulty touchpad so it could right-click and then left-click when I only left-click). Though others also want this for other reasons as can be seen here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/671278/disable-hyperlinks-in-gnome-terminal
My personal opinion about implementing a software workaround for your broken hardware is: sorry, no. I'm yet to be convinced that this option would generally be useful enough to make it worth implementing, I doubt it.
I concur; WONTFIX. Note that there's another request (bug 540023) to only highlight the URL when pressing a modifier.