gnome-terminal menu items disappeared

[Wolf Rogner]

In xterm the file menu contained a menu item:
Open Terminal in Tab and
Open Terminal in new Window

There is a new Terminal menu which offers the same Preferences item as the the Edit menu but the option to open a terminal in a new tab disappeared from the menus (a tab can be opened with ctrl-shift-T though).

Is this an error or a feature (as the Terminal menu does not make any sense at all).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
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[Thomas Dickey (dickey-his)]

Description of menus is not relevant to "xterm"

[Wolf Rogner (war-rsb)]

of course gnome-terminal.

It's late here, sorry

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Under Preferences, you can specify whether the "New Terminal" menu entry opens it in a window or a tab.

Separate shortcuts (Shift+Ctrl+N and Shift+Ctrl+T by default) are still available.

This was a change done in mainstream gnome-terminal; I have no idea what was the intent behind it. I have no opinion either whether it's better or worse than the old one was. I recommend you to accept it this way and get used to it :)

[Wolf Rogner (war-rsb)]

Thank you for this information. I have found that myself.

Have no Gnome desktop so didn't know if this was an error or a "feature".
Having played a bit with 15.04 I found several changes in the way applications work. Most of them are not beneficial.

I can live with this but I have users that might nag me about such a change.

But thanks for the answer.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrey Gelman (andrey-gelman)]

Cannot open a tab nor via menus, neither via HUD.
Don't remember keyboard shortcuts !