New external terminal without using internal terminal

[lonix1]

When launching an external terminal, the command is issued from the internal terminal. So even if the internal terminal is hidden, it is still there and still needs to be closed at some point.

Is it possible not to use the internal terminal at all?

ubuntu 18.10
vscode 1.33.0

[gliviu]

One related usecase would be to open a gui application for a certain type of file. In this case a terminal does not make sense at all. I am thinking to use a new mode (ie. 'detached').