[haiku-development] Re: New Terminal windows open in current directory, bug or feature?

  • From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:57:23 -0500

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2012-12-07 at 20:23:22 [+0100], John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> When you open a new terminal window (or tab) the new window set to the
>> same directory as the previous Terminal window/tab.
>>
>> This behavior is different from every OS with a Terminal I know,
>> including BeOS 5 (I checked). What normally happens is that new
>> Terminal windows open in some default location, usually your home
>> directory.
>
> Whenever you open a new terminal tab in Linux, either with "Konsole" or
> "Gnome Terminal", it behaves just like ours does.

I don't run Linux DE's so that is not on my radar but BeOS and Mac OS
X all behave as I said always opening new terminal Windows set to your
home directory. I can't remember what Windows does off-hande

> As several others have stated already, it's an intended feature and I don't
> believe we should change it.

I'm getting the impression that this is an intended feature so I'll
close this bug report as WONTFIX.

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