How to restore terminals in nonexisting directories?

[danthe1st]

In #2859, I made sure that open the terminal view with a folder selected restores the existing terminals (opened in a previous session) without setting all working directories to the selected directory.

In a comment, @iloveeclipse mentioned one situation I didn't think of: What should happen if the restored directory doesn't exist? Currently, the working directory used will be the current working directory the Eclipse IDE is started with from what I can see (at least on my Linux system), regardless of the initial working directory configured in the preferences.

For improve this for the future, I see the following options:

1. Keep it as is. Use the working directory Eclipse has been started with.
2. Don't restore the terminal. If the directory doesn't exist, the terminal is probably not important.
3. Use the Initial Working Directory preference. This is supposed to be the default location after all.
4. In addition to 3., restore the terminal at the current selected folder if it exists. That may be the most relevant location but it may not fit with the other terminals.

Any opinions on that?

[laeubi]

I would say the most logical would likely be not restore the terminal.
What would one loose on that e.g. is there anything that is "lost" beside opening a new terminal window (what should be a cheap operation anyways).