[Terminal] "--tab" option miss-behaves

[Benedikt Meurer]

Joe Klemmer wrote:
>>>>--tab opens a new tab in the new window, so it works as 
>>>>documented.
> 
> 	I've been thinking about this and I'm curious about something...  What
> is the benefit of this switch?  It doesn't make any sense to open
> another terminal with a second tab running a program like this.  You'd
> either want to run the program on an existing terminal or run it in it's
> own terminal.  So what's the rational for --tab performing in the
> existing way?

For example, you want to open a terminal windows with two tabs in it,
running two special applications (i.e. mail and news readers), or
whatever. And other than that, it's used for session management.

Benedikt