Bug 55217

Summary: Improve the schema editor
Product: [Applications] konsole Reporter: Philippe Fremy <phil>
Component: generalAssignee: Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: major    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Before clearing screen.add its contents to the history.

Description Philippe Fremy 2003-02-26 14:44:24 UTC 
Version:           1.2 (using KDE 3.1.0)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.2.1 20021207 (Gentoo Linux 3.2.1-20021207)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.19-gentoo-r9

The concept of konsole schema is just great. However, the current schema editor has the following usability problems:
1. it is difficult to have an idea of what all the colors of the schema looks like.
2. it is difficult to tweak them.

One of the problem with 1. is that the current schema is not applied to the current konsole, which has been fixed. However, even with the fix, it is difficult to know if all the colors of the schema render fine because you usually don't have all of them displayed in a konsole.

The remedy for this is to display all the colors of a scheme in a column. It would be possible then to change them by simply clicking on them.

I realise there is a whole usability issue with all this dialog. I am going to discuss this with the usability team and try to provide you a .ui summarizing a possible better arrangement.
Comment 1 Philippe Fremy 2004-05-10 20:57:20 UTC 
I realise that tweaking the color scheme properly for individual characters colors is not a common task. Therefore I suggest to move it to an advanced area where more space could be used to show the result of the tweaking.

The proper way to do that is to prepre a three columns grid. First column allow to specify the color of the foreground, second column for the color of the background, and third color for showint the result.

You would need one row per terminal color (about 10 rows if i remember correctly).
Comment 2 Robert Hogan 2005-01-06 23:07:16 UTC 
Created attachment 8959 [details]
Before clearing screen.add its contents to the history.

This patch adds the current screen contents to the history before before
clearing the screen. Is it quick and dirty? Oh yes...
Comment 3 Robert Hogan 2005-01-06 23:09:08 UTC 
sorry, wrong bug...
Comment 4 Robert Knight 2007-02-10 03:39:09 UTC 
Usability issue is a bug, not a feature request.
Comment 5 Robert Knight 2007-05-08 00:41:36 UTC 
Improvements made in KDE 4.  Live previews of color schemes and a clearer dialog to choose and edit color schemes is implemented.