Bug 44275 – When a new profile is created, it is applied to all open gnome-terminal

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christophe 2004-03-10 11:47:59 UTC]

Creation of new profile in gnome-terminal is applied to all open terminal. Using gnome-terminal-2.4.0.1. Bug can be produced in two ways via Edit->Profiles and via File->New profile. Step by step of Edit case below.

Probably related issue: new profile is set as default profile.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two gnome-terminal with different profiles (just for illustration, not needed)
2. In one, go to Edit, Profiles
3. Select New, and give a name "Demo"
4. When you click OK, this Demo profile is applied to all open terminal.

Actual Results:  
Demo profile is applied to all gnome-terminal.

Expected Results:  
Should not be applied to any terminal, if created from Edit -> Profiles, or
should be applied only to current window if created from File -> New profile


[#root-] emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-gentoo-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.3-gentoo-r2 x86_64 4
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fPIC"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fPIC"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo
ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/
ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X amd64 apm avi berkdb cdr cups dvd dvdr esd fftw foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome
gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jpeg kerberos ldap libg++ libwww mozilla mpeg
mysql ncurses opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png postgres ppds python qt
readline sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-03-11 13:38:27 UTC]

could just as well be a feature (?) but i guess you are right.

should push upstream

[Comment 2 Christophe 2004-03-11 14:47:08 UTC]

I agree it can be considered trivial, but I hardly see how it could be considered a feature... it nullified the advantage of having separate profiles.

I used profiles to distinguish which machine I am connected to. With 10-20 terminals open at a time (distributed computing on cluster), having all of them "reset" to same profile is annoying to say the least.

[Comment 3 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2005-01-24 04:28:41 UTC]

This is upstream here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158031.