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That behaviour makes sense for a lot of applications sure but for stuff like terminals it is really annoying.

Why isn't it possible to configure that on a per-launcher basis?



I spent a few years using OS X, and clicking on some corner of some terminal somewhere and hitting Cmd-N to get myself a fresh terminal (or clicking somewhere on the desktop and hitting Cmd-N to get a fresh file-manager window) was so convenient that even in GNOME 3 I have Super-N bound to 'new terminal window'.


It will be eventually, but the default behaviour is the most important thing to get right.


Configurability being added to Gnome?

Ha!




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