allow manual change of tab/terminal window name or explain the refusal

[fhanzlik]

Expected behaviour

New Mate-Terminal versions (v1.19.0 in my case) have in 'Edit' -> 'Preferences' -> 'Title and commands' -> 'When terminal commands set their own titles' default value "Keep initial value" - in contrast to older (v1.6.2 in my case) versions, where default value is "Replace initial file".
This new behavior has the effect, that is not possible to manually change the name of the tab.

Right behavior for " Keep initial value" IMO should be such that terminal command should not change the tab name, but tab name should be manually changed.
(Or, the user should be notified that the name change request conflicts with the preset value for 'When terminal commands set their own titles')

Actual behaviour

When right click on tab, I can select "Set Title..." menu item, then "Set Title" window appear, where is possible fill "Title" field. But after confirm this setting with "OK" button, tab title stay unchanged - although entered new tab title is remembered (as I can see through a new attempt to set a title), the terminal still displays the original title of the tab.
What is amazing, when, after unsuccessful attempts to terminal/tab name change, I change in 'Profile Preferences' 'When terminal commands set their own titles' value to something other than "Keep initial value", then tab/terminal name is altered by previously manually entered value.

MATE general version

1.19.0

Package version

mate-terminal-1.19.0-1.fc27.i686

Linux Distribution

Fedora 27 i686

Link to downstream report of your Distribution

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1509817

[raveit65]

For clarification in fedora i use this gsettings override since f23 with mate-terminal-1.10/12.
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/mate-desktop.git/tree/mate-fedora-f23.gschema.override?h=f23#n31
Upstream don't use this default.
Beside from this the options in context menus should be greyout if those options are used.
I don't think that we need to implement a warning here if menuitems are greyout.

[raveit65]

Btw. i am still wondering which old eol fedora version with m-t-1.6.2 you was using before f27 :-)

[fhanzlik]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:26:26 +0000 (UTC) raveit65 ***@***.***> wrote: Btw. i am still wondering which old eol fedora version with m-t-1.6.2 you was using before f27 :-)

It was f19 - which was perhaps base for rhel7/Centos7 and it had extended support for half a year, unlike other Fedora releases (because f20 came out after a year from the f19). Since Fedora has unfortunately chosen the systemd, I'm pretty conservative ;) -- Franta Hanzlik