Add 'Open a new terminal window' to unity launcher quicklist

[Bilal Akhtar]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

It would be good to have an option 'Open a new terminal window' to the unity launcher quicklist of gnome-terminal. This would open up a new terminal window.

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

This debdiff fixes the bug. Kindly sponsor. Thanks!

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Since we have passed UIF and still this debdiff wasn't sponsored, do I need a UIFe for this one?

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Yes, you will need a UI freeze exception for this. Please update the bug appropriately (as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#UserInterfaceFreeze Exceptions ) then subscribe ubuntu-release.

Also, looking at your debdiff it looks that the the Name field of the quicklist is not marked for translation? It should be - with a leading ‘_’ to make the key “_NAME”. Apart from that, looks good.

[Ben Gamari (bgamari)]

Is anyone working on this UI freeze?

[Ben Gamari (bgamari)]

s/freeze/freeze exception/

[Cas (calumlind)]

I was editing gnome-terminal launcher and found that with the line 'OnlyShowIn=GNOME;' present the quicklist would not appear.

Therefore I think it needs to be removed as part of the patch.

[Luca Mina (luca-mina)]

workaround found on http://askubuntu.com/questions/39523/how-to-make-unity-terminal-button-open-a-separate-terminal

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop

Change "OnlyShowIn=GNOME;" to "OnlyShowIn=Unity;"

add at the bottom of the file these lines:

X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts=NewWindow;

[NewWindow Shortcut Group]
Name=New Window
Exec=gnome-terminal --window
OnlyShowIn=Unity

[Cas (calumlind)]

@Luca sorry that is incorrect. I should have revised my previous comment as I did investigate this further.

In Shortcut groups for Ayatana you should not use "OnlyShowIn=Unity" instead you use "TargetEnvironment=Unity"

In the main part of the desktop entry instead of removing "OnlyShowIn" simply add Unity to the end like so: "OnlyShowIn=Gnome;Unity;"

That is an old askubuntu question that should really be revised to point to the updated terminal quicklist here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/35488/list-of-custom-launchers-quicklists-for-unity/39532#39532

[Luca Mina (luca-mina)]

@Cas Thank you for you explanation! I'm afraid but I don't know anything about program language. I just found it worked on my computer... and for me it was fine :P

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

gnome-terminal already has a New Terminal quicklist entry.