Update to 3.12

[Robert Ancell]

Update GNOME Terminal to 3.10.2 or 3.8 or anything newer than 3.6 :)

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Iain was working on it in lp:~ubuntu-desktop/gnome-terminal/ubuntu and was blocked on a bug where opening a new tab always opens in the home directory rather than the current directory [1]. Note that Debian has 3.10 even though this behaviour has changed.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697475

[Iain Lane (laney)]

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=706065

I tried to talk to doko but didn't get any traction. Perhaps someone else could do that again or just do the upgrade as Debian did and take the heat.

Regardless, I'm not actively planning on working on this update atm, so I'm going to unassign myself.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Yes, please do upgrade! There's been many changes-fixes-improvements to gnome-terminal. If you don't upgrade, Trusty LTS's default terminal emulator will lag behind by 3 major Gnome releases, this just doesn't sound right.

Vte ships the /etc/profile.d/vte.sh script, to be sourced by bash/zsh. Once it's done, opening a new tab keeps the directory as it did previously. I don't see why it'd take more than ten minutes to get this working distro-wide. (For myself, I just had to add a "source /etc/profile.d/vte.sh" line to my ~/.bashrc, that's all.)

Even if you choose to "just do the upgrade as Debian did and take the heat", that "heat" would be asking users who complain to add something to their .bashrc, probably much simpler/better than asking them to upgrade gnome-terminal.

It's likely that Vte will be upgraded to 0.36 (as shipped by Gnome 3.12) for Trusty, since this version contains plenty of important bugfixes and improvements over the currently shipped 0.34. A new feature of vte-0.36 is rewrapping lines on resize. There's a corresponding gnome-terminal setting to disable this, this is necessary because a giant (or infinite) scrollback makes resizing very slow, so users should be able to decide if it's worth the price for them. If gnome-terminal is not updated, at least this config option will have to be backported. And it's probably already more hassle than just updating and doing that vte.sh thingy.

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

See also bug 1132700.

[Mateusz Gryzzli (gryzzli)]

Gnome-terminal 3.8 and newer breaks mono-develop. See here:

https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12684#c6

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Bumped the version in the title – now that 3.12 is out, it wouldn't make much sense to update to 3.8 or 3.10.

There's at least one more reason to update to at least 3.12, namely the "rewrap on resize" UI setting, see bug 1319864.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

This was done