The last 2 tabs here are flootty terminals, but the problem is you can't tell which is which.

if you could modify PS1 to display the terminal name in the tab/title (I've done it, but there are too many characters to escape in a launcher-string), it would be really helpful. :)
here's the example I used which sets the tab/title to "newtitle":
PS1='\[\e]0;newtitle\a\]${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '