Bug 130731 - Improve highlighting of active Konsole tab
Summary: Improve highlighting of active Konsole tab
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: konsole
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.6.3
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Konsole Developer
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Reported: 2006-07-13 00:37 UTC by Nick Savoiu
Modified: 2006-07-20 08:38 UTC (History)
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Snapshot to illustrate problem. (6.81 KB, image/png)
2006-07-13 00:39 UTC, Nick Savoiu
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Description Nick Savoiu 2006-07-13 00:37:04 UTC
Version:           1.6.3 (using KDE KDE 3.5.3)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc3.2.3 
OS:                Linux

I think that the active Konsole tab should be made to stand out better than it does. I often have lots of open tabs and find it a bit hard to quickly tell which tab is active before I start switching tabs with keyboard shortcuts.

Suggestions for better highlighting:

 1. use different color for selected/unselected tab font
    probably the least intrusive from a design view

 2. make text of active tab bold
    this will make other tabs wider than they need to be when not
    selected or will make tab width vary from selected/unselected

 3. any others?
Comment 1 Nick Savoiu 2006-07-13 00:39:24 UTC
Created attachment 16972 [details]
Snapshot to illustrate problem.

Note that it's not easy to, at a glance, tell which tab is selected.
Comment 2 Philip Rodrigues 2006-07-14 21:07:28 UTC
This is the fault of the widget theme/colour scheme you're using, and not konsole. What theme are you using, so the bug can be reassigned?
Comment 3 Nick Savoiu 2006-07-15 21:17:34 UTC
I'm using my own color scheme and the MS Windows 9x style. If there's a place in ~/.kde I can try to extract my particular color settings.
Comment 4 Philip Rodrigues 2006-07-17 22:08:47 UTC
Presumably not a bug then - if you find that some default colour scheme gives the problem, then maybe it's a bug, but of course you can choose your own colours so you can't distinguish things... :-)
Comment 5 Kurt Hindenburg 2006-07-18 05:34:31 UTC
Try some of the schema distributed with KDE... the current tab is obvious.
Comment 6 Nick Savoiu 2006-07-18 19:52:00 UTC
I had marked it as a wish not a bug
Comment 7 Nick Savoiu 2006-07-18 19:54:35 UTC
Sure, try the default color scheme "High Contrast White Text". Much worse visibility than mine.
Comment 8 Kurt Hindenburg 2006-07-19 07:08:18 UTC
The tab scheme is the same for Konsole, Konqueror and any other KDE program that uses tabs... you just have to pick a scheme you like.  
It could be possible to have the current tab in bold, but I don't care for that. 
Comment 9 Nick Savoiu 2006-07-20 08:38:31 UTC
Thanks for the wild goose chase and the honest answer.