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Bug 83265 - Show screen number in tab title
Show screen number in tab title
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
: 97581 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-05-28 15:34 UTC by Fernando Herrera
Modified: 2021-06-10 14:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Patch to show screen number in the title (8.55 KB, patch)
2002-05-28 15:35 UTC, Fernando Herrera
needs-work Details | Review
Replace %d in a terminal's title with its position in the notebook (7.22 KB, patch)
2006-03-07 14:20 UTC, Thomas Thurman
needs-work Details | Review

Description Fernando Herrera 2002-05-28 15:34:54 UTC
This is a suggestion from our users:
To show in the tab title the number of the screen (when multiple screens 
opened in a gnome-terminal). It helps to identify each screen, and allow 
easily change with the key accels (if you see the last terminal has a [4] 
in the title, you press alt+4).

I'm attaching the patch
Comment 1 Fernando Herrera 2002-05-28 15:35:47 UTC
Created attachment 8790 [details] [review]
Patch to show screen number in the title
Comment 2 Havoc Pennington 2002-09-22 22:20:25 UTC
Another place where we could use a comprehensive MDI recommendation
from UI team for Galeon, xchat, terminal, etc. (disclaimer: maybe it
already exists)

This change isn't clearly right to me so I want to keep the issue open
but not apply the change immediately.
Comment 3 Calum Benson 2002-09-23 11:33:35 UTC
There's no such spec yet, but a few ideas were also mentioned in  in
bug #72101.
Comment 4 Heath Harrelson 2002-11-06 13:54:58 UTC
*** Bug 97581 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez 2003-07-19 06:18:13 UTC
Does this mythical `comprehensive MDI recommendation from UI team'
exist or has it been discussed? There are quite a few bugs related to
that, which are essentially in need of direction...

As for this particular one bug, I think a better solution than the one
proposed above would be to allow %d in the profile's `initial title'
with the obvious interpretation.
Comment 6 Peter Lyons 2005-02-02 15:39:26 UTC
I would also like to see this option.  It bodes well that I was able to find
this pre-existing RFE in just a few moments.  If this feature was an option that
could be disabled/enabled via preferences, that would be good too. Great job on
gnome-terminal!
Comment 7 Benoît Dejean 2005-10-30 02:12:48 UTC
This option would be great. Most of my tabs are always named "gnome-terminal" :/
Comment 8 Thomas Thurman 2006-03-07 14:20:03 UTC
Created attachment 60835 [details] [review]
Replace %d in a terminal's title with its position in the notebook

Here's a patch which implements the behaviour suggested above about replacing %d with the tab number.
Comment 9 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-03-27 19:51:17 UTC
Patch looks good.
Comment 10 Thomas Thurman 2006-03-28 01:04:34 UTC
Okay to commit, then?
Comment 11 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-03-28 01:18:08 UTC
No, please wait for the gnome-terminal maintainer, who is Guilherme de S. Pastore.
Comment 12 Matthias Clasen 2006-04-01 15:47:13 UTC
I fail to see the point of the patch. I mean, isn't it pretty obvious that that
the third tab is number 3, just by counting them ? Also, if you reorder tabs, or 
drag them between terminals, their position changes, which will lead to title changes, and thus defeat any mnemonic value these numbers could have...
Comment 13 Behdad Esfahbod 2006-04-01 19:56:49 UTC
I do have this problem when I've got like 10 tabs that I keep trying say 6, 7, 8, until I find the tab I'm looking for.  So yes, counting works, but is not the most efficient way.
Comment 14 Christian Persch 2008-04-04 13:25:12 UTC
Patches don't apply anymore; setting patch status.
Comment 15 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 14:31:09 UTC
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