Bug 138681

Summary: Kicker extension to provide Quake-style console on desktop, maybe using Konsole
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: meldroc
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: me
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description meldroc 2006-12-11 18:06:39 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

If you've ever played first-person shooters like the Quake series, Doom3, Half-Life 2 or others, they frequently have a feature where if you hit a hotkey (tilde in Quake's case), a command-line console pops down from the top of the screen and lets you type in commands for configuration tweaks, cheats & such.

That would be a great Kicker feature for command-line commanders like me - hit a hotkey, or click an icon on a Kicker panel, and have a Konsole slide out and give you an instant shell prompt.

I believe this is already implemented, Kuake has something like this at http://www.nemohackers.org/kuake.php

Maybe this should be folded into the official KDE release?
Comment 1 Bram Schoenmakers 2006-12-11 22:37:27 UTC
yakuake is just what you're looking for, I don't believe this feature should be in Konsole.