Setting to hide tab title when there is only one tab no more work

[BorisNA]

What Happened?

After the latest update (version 6.3.0+r2614+pkg89~ubuntu7.1) terminal appears to ignore old gsetting

gsettings set io.elementary.terminal.settings tab-bar-behavior 'Hide When Single Tab'

'gsettings' still lists this option as a valid one, but the terminal opens with the tab title shown, even for the one tab.

'Never Show Tabs' does not work either

Steps to Reproduce

1. Updated to 6.3.0+r2614+pkg89~ubuntu7.1
2. Opened a terminal
3. Re-checked correct gsettings value (Hide When Single Tab)
4. Tab's header is there

Expected Behavior

Tab headers should be hidden

In fact, they take too much space on old small displays (think about old x220 and like).

OS Version

7.x (Horus)

Session Type

Classic Session (X11, This is the default)

Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

Log Output

No response

Hardware Info

No response

[ryonakano]

Seems like this feature was removed in #760 and the gsettings key is just a leftover

[ryonakano]

I think we can re-implement (at least) "Hide When Single Tab" by using Hdy.TabBar.autohide which is fixed to false in the current code, but I'm not sure if developers interested in re-implementing this because this feature has been a hidden settings which means most users couldn't and wouldn't configure it unless they know gsettings command or unofficial tools like Pantheon Tweaks.

[jeremypw]

Its the designer's call but I do not think the benefit of these settings (if any) is worth the added visual noise.

[BorisNA]

There would be no 'visual noise' becasue these settings are controlled through gsettings, that is command line, without confusing other users.

As for tabs - yes, it's designers call, I never understood rationale for tabs in terminal emulator in DEs with WM (unlike screen or tmux in real terminals, but it is a completely different story).

this feature has been a hidden settings which means most users couldn't and wouldn't configure it

Yes, unfortunately there is a loop - most users wouldn't configure it since there is no such setting, and there is no such setting, since designers (or developers) think that users wouldn't use it.

[BorisNA]

Proposed PR should completely bring 6.1.2/6.2.0 behavior back if maintainers approve it.

In the meantime, I made a PPA build of the old version for myself (since it was deleted in the base repository when the 6.3.0 was published).

If anybody is interested - here is the PPA receipe and here is the PPA binary package