Allow disabling automatic reconstruction of terminals

[danthe1st]

• I verified latest Integration Build of Eclipse SDK doesn't provide the feature.

Suggestion

When there are multiple terminals open in the terminal view, Eclipse tries to reconstruct them. I suggest adding a checkbox in the preferences to disable that behavior.

From a fresh installation and clean workspace:

• Window > Show View > Terminal
• Open multiple terminals (in the same view, possibly using Show In > Local Terminal)
• Restart Eclipse
• Open the Terminal view again
• Notice that it will reopen all terminals one by one

The problem

I typically open terminals using Ctrl+Alt+T (or a different key combination) with whatever I want to open selected (So Show In > Local Terminal). When I opened 10 terminals that way (without thinking about closing them), later start Eclipse again and want to do something in the terminal, I have to wait until 11 terminals are opened one after one even though I only care about opening one.

What I want

I think there should be a checkbox in the terminal preferences of whether terminals should be reconstructed on startup (should probably be true by default). If this behavior is disabled, it should not automatically start any terminals from previous runs when opening the terminal view the first time since I started Eclipse.

Community

• I understand suggesting an enhancement doesn't mandate anyone to implement it. Other contributors may consider this suggestion, or not, at their own convenience. The most efficient way to get it fixed is that I implement it myself and contribute it back as a good quality patch to the project.