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Idea #1117: "open a terminal" on the right click

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #2785: Open a terminal window through Nautilus.
Written by nocrack the 29 Feb 08 at 08:29. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Like on Fedora and many other distro, It should be so great to be able to open a terminal just with a right click.
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Written by nocrack the 29 Feb 08 at 08:29.
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Greyor wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 08:33
I put an icon for Terminal on my top panel, next to the menubar. It's not that hard to do. Neither is the right-clicking, I suppose, but I don't think it's absolutely necessary.

ulrich wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 08:45
you can get this option by 'sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal' in ubuntu.

Ferk wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 09:21
The unexperienced user won't want this.
And the experienced one can customize it to be this way.

There is no need to have this as a default.

bigdufstuff wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 10:18
Why should the average user have the terminal constantly in his face?

The terminal is there for power users, and if the power user wants the nautilus-open-terminal plugin he should install it. However, this should not be the default.

cardinals_fan wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:34
I love the terminal and use it often, but most CLI users probably know how to configure shortcuts. New GUI users don't.

rawsausage wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 17:44
Good for nerds, really gold plating for most of the real end users.

probono wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 18:21
Also include a terminal button in the top menu bar (where the Firefox button is).

Æshættr wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 20:42
Lots of file managers have this feature, and it's nice if you don't want to open a terminal and cd to wherever you want to be. However, there are applications like yakuake that have a terminal always open and it lets you bring it up with F12. You still have to cd to the folder you want to work in, but it's much more convenient than going through a menu to access a terminal.

peterjs wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 23:22
This is already implemented, the second comment says as much. Can someone explain to me why this idea is above zero?

Are people not reading the comments? Are they not understanding the comments? Willful ignorance? Trolling?

cardinals_fan wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 06:07
There should be a launcher for the terminal on the default panel setup, but as peterjs said, the main idea is dealt with.

antistress wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 22:57
see also
idea #2785: Open a terminal window through Nautilus
idea #2210: nautilus-open-terminal installed by default

related :
idea #2517: Open terminal in the current folder by clicking F4 in Nautilus

munkyeetr wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 12:14
see also
idea #4442

I don't know how these duplicates didn't come up when I searched for "Open in Terminal" before submitting the new idea.

And it's above 0 votes because people like the idea of having it already installed by default.

munkyeetr wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 16:26
Quite a few comments assert that new users will be confused by this, that they won't want it, and that they will "constantly have the terminal in their face"

This is not an intrusive addition. It's not something that keeps popping up in a window and they have to close. It sits right on the same menu as several other commands. Maybe they will be a little confused the first time they use it, but then they will know what it is, and won't click it if they don't need to. We need to have a little bit more confidence in new users than to think a menu option is going to confuse and rive them away.

And it will be a lot easy to on them to say, "right click on the folder and choose Open Terminal Here, then type this command" than it will be to explain to them "Open a terminal...here's how...and then deal with why the path they are typing in doesn't work."


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