Feature Request: buttons for open, switch terminal

[jberkus]

I'd love to switch to x-terminal-reloaded from my older, unmaintained, terminal plugin. However, I really really need to have a button for opening the terminal window ala Terminal Plus/Platform-IDE-Terminal.

If you're unfamiliar, Terminal Plus has this in the bottom left corner:

+ [] [] X

Where + opens a new terminal, each [] is a currently open terminal, and X is "close all". This provides a very nice clicking-UX for opening and closing terminals, something I do dozens of times each work session. The "switching" is also the way of "unhiding" terminal windows. It's a nice bit of UI that allows users to be very productive with multiple terminal windows without memorizing any key commands.

I realize this is more complicated than it is for Terminal Plus simply because x-terminal allows loading the terminal in any of several different windows rather than only the bottom dock.

[zhaolinlau]

any update? we need a toggle function on this

[Spiker985]

I'm sorry for not seeing this sooner. That does sound like a much needed feature.

Since XTR is a fork of X-Terminal, there're quite a few things that are implemented currently that I don't particularly enjoy (the bazillion "Open in" commands, the way profiles work, the way you access profiles, etc)

This does seem like a very nice and nuanced way to, not only start, but also move through terminal panes

Let me see if I can take another look at this repo sometime soon

[tom-power]

@jberkus @zhaolinlau out of interest...

At the moment we have tabs that can be selected, with "x"s to close, also an "Open new terminal" action. Would adding a "+" for the "Open new terminal" action cover this? Thinking it'd be the same pattern as tabs in browsers?

Also noting that it's not done with file tabs, and maybe it's been talked about and decided against for some reason?? :)

[zhaolinlau]

@tom-power it's quite inconvenient if have a lot of tabs