elementary / elementary/files

Open with Terminal should open ssh

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## Prerequisites
- [x] I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates.

## Feature
Connecting to a remote server with ssh in Files is super simple, it remembers username and password, and can automatically reconnect. But when I want to connect to a server in Terminal, I have to search for the name and password and enter them manually.

**Describe the solution you'd like**
It would be very nice and intuitive if Files' context menu option `Open in > Terminal` opened Terminal with ssh connection ready.

**Describe alternatives you've considered**
I guess it is possible to make a script that opens the connection, but it will have to be stored separately, and navigating to it and opening it every time would be annoying.

**Additional context**
This is what happens now:
![Untitled2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16974379/85415951-96dc2680-b576-11ea-9da5-6e0bd22fd365.png)
It opens a mounted folder?

This is what I thought would happen:
![Untitled3](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16974379/85416035-afe4d780-b576-11ea-872f-4f6b7da00b18.png)
Open ssh connection

I don't know if it's possible to get the password, but as you can see on the first screenshot, host and username are included in the path, so maybe it's possible to at least drop to password input?

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