Display tab in Mate window containing only one terminal

[bergstenarn]

Expected behaviour

Tabs shall always be displayed, even if there's only one terminal in the Mate window.

Actual behaviour

When the Mate window contains only one terminal it's not possible to drag that terminal to another Mate window.

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Start two Mate windows. Try to drag the terminal in the first window over to the second. It doesn't work ... or I haven't been able to do that despite plenty of attempts.

MATE general version

$ mate-terminal --version
MATE Terminal 1.18.1

Package version

$ zypper search -is mate-terminal
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name | Type | Version | Arch | Repository
---+---------------+---------+------------+--------+-----------------------------
i+ | mate-terminal | package | 1.18.1-1.1 | x86_64 | The MATE desktop environment

Linux Distribution

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="SLES"
VERSION="12-SP2"
VERSION_ID="12.2"
PRETTY_NAME="SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2"
ID="sles"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:suse:sles:12:sp2"

Link to bugreport of your Distribution (requirement)

Don't know where to find that bugreport or how to generate it. Sorry. Hope that's ok as this is more kind of a feature request than a bug.

[lukefromdc]

Users who do not use tabs in terminal (myself included) may not want to show the tab bar unconditionally.

[cwendling]

Yeah, it at least should be an option, I surely wouldn't like the space wasted in my 1-tab windows.

However, isn't the workaround of opening an additional tab just to be able to DnD the other one good enough? I might miss the use case, but I wouldn't think DnDing tabs happens so often it's a deal breaker, nor that it warrants losing that window real estate.

[cwendling]

$ mate-terminal --version
MATE Terminal 1.18.1

Also note that 1.18 is very old, back in 2017.

[bergstenarn]

Yeah, it at least should be an option, I surely wouldn't like the space wasted in my 1-tab windows.

However, isn't the workaround of opening an additional tab just to be able to DnD the other one good enough? I might miss the use case, but I wouldn't think DnDing tabs happens so often it's a deal breaker, nor that it warrants losing that window real estate.

Making it an option is the right way to go I'd say.

FYI I struggled quite some time trying to organize my terminals in various windows and tabs and several windows contained only one terminal. I tried to find a toggle in the settings about this, but without success. After a while I realized that the workaround is to simply open another tab in windows with only one tab to 'enable' DnD. But my frustration could have been far less with a toggle in the settings to show tabs in windows with only one terminal. Am I the only one who have struggled with this? Maybe I am :-)

[anishsane]

+1 for this idea from me as well.

And it will be useful if it was made as an option (or even editable via CSS if that's easier).