Tabs now open in last current working dir, which is not userfriendly
Submitted by Arcterex
Link to original bug (#124327)
Description
I guess this could be considered a request for the removal of a feature introduced in the 2.4.X series of gnome-terminal. Previously, creating a new tab would create it with it's shells working directory as the directory that gnome-terminal was started in. With the 2.4 series of gnome-terminal, tabs are started with their CWD as that of the directory that the previous tab was in. To duplicate:
- start gnome terminal, noting the directory your shell starts out in (ie: /home/user)
- create a new tab with ctrl-alt-t (default keybinding)
- note that the new tab starts in the same directory (/home/user)
- change directories to /home/user/something
- create a new tab in the same manner as before
- note that the CWD for the new tab's shell is now /home/user/something instead of the expected /home/user
My argument for moving the behaviour to how it previously was that users are expecting the directory a new tab or shell starts in to be consistant. While "what the last CWD was" is "consistant", a user can't be expected to keep the last CWD in their head all the time, starting new tabs in the same directory each time would make gnome-terminal more consistant. I'm putting this as a normal bug as I consider this behaviour broken compared to how it used to be, but feel free to adjust it to a RFE if you feel it's needed.
Note: originally reported in gnome-core accidently as bug #124305
Version: 2.4.x
Resolution: RESOLVED NOTABUG