+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #264180 +++ Version: 2.5 (using KDE 4.5.1) [note: problem persists in 2.11.*] OS: Linux Many users of Konsole have loads of tabs open simultaneously. In such cases it is very hard to find the active tab because it's not visually distinguished from the others. It is a major productivity blocker for me which wastes minutes of my life on a daily basis. I suggest changing the background color of the active tab and/or making its text bold. It should be a very easy fix that would tremendously improve the productivity of power users like me. Reproducible: Always
Bug #264180 (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264180) has a good discussion of the issue; it was unfortunately posted against the Oxygen theme, not konsole itself. konsole really needs a way to make the inactive tabs more distinguishable, whether that is a change in color, font characteristics (bold, italics, sizing), or size. I believe it needs to be independent of the theme, for a couple of reasons. First, it's entirely possible that a theme suits a user perfectly except for konsole, where the active tab needs to be more distinct. Second, there are people like me who use konsole outside of the KDE environment (in my case, in xfce4), and adjusting the style is more problematic (read: impossible, as far as I've found). FYI, my usage pattern (my "user story") is to open a new konsole window for each project I'm working on (building and testing puppet modules, schlepping files for a user, whatever), and have multiple tabs within that window. Eg. one tab is the puppetmaster, one is a client, one is another client, etc.
Adding my 2 cents here too - this is really something that should be fixed. I also have a lot of trouble quickly distinguishing which tab is active. I usually end up using shift-left / shift-right to pick up the movement to spot it because it's faster than staring at it for several seconds.
This is somewhere between a workaround and an outright fix. Konsole uses a QT stylesheet, and can be told to use an arbitrary one. cat tab.qss QTabBar::tab:selected, QTabBar::tab:hover { background: #EE4444; } QTabBar::tab:selected { border-color: #33FF33; border-bottom-color: #C2C7CB; /* same as pane color */ } konsole --stylesheet tab.qss
Yes, I had some code earlier that did the same as comment #3. The issue is how to let the user change it. If they use a different KDE theme/scheme, it code would need changed.
Well what I meant is unless you want to use the command-line; there needs to be a way to save/load the given css code. The css I used earlier was in the actual .cpp code.
I'm with you, Kurt. I just wanted to make sure that if someone hit this page looking for a solution, there was *something* they could use.
If anyone compiles Konsole from source, you might try out https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115554/ I'll try to get it in for KDE 4.13
Git commit da9331e0e9bb012939fbec4289a796c99701c572 by Kurt Hindenburg. Committed on 09/02/2014 at 16:45. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'master'. Allow users to specify css file for tab bar style Currently, the default stylesheet for the tab bar just sets the min and max width. Now the user can load a .css file. It is up to the user to generate the css file to their liking. Handbook documentation and examples will follow. This can be used to set minimum width of the tabs, distinguish active tab, etc... Related: bug 330558, bug 330556 FEATURE: REVIEW: 115554 FIXED-IN: 2.13 M +29 -1 src/MainWindow.cpp M +1 -0 src/MainWindow.h M +33 -11 src/settings/TabBarSettings.ui M +8 -0 src/settings/konsole.kcfg http://commits.kde.org/konsole/da9331e0e9bb012939fbec4289a796c99701c572
Git commit 19ceea24f3275326f91cc475e5b63e9283b78481 by Kurt Hindenburg. Committed on 09/02/2014 at 16:45. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'frameworks'. Allow users to specify css file for tab bar style Currently, the default stylesheet for the tab bar just sets the min and max width. Now the user can load a .css file. It is up to the user to generate the css file to their liking. Handbook documentation and examples will follow. This can be used to set minimum width of the tabs, distinguish active tab, etc... Related: bug 330558, bug 330556 FEATURE: REVIEW: 115554 FIXED-IN: 2.13 (cherry picked from commit da9331e0e9bb012939fbec4289a796c99701c572) M +29 -1 src/MainWindow.cpp M +1 -0 src/MainWindow.h M +33 -11 src/settings/TabBarSettings.ui M +8 -0 src/settings/konsole.kcfg http://commits.kde.org/konsole/19ceea24f3275326f91cc475e5b63e9283b78481
Hi! Was the fix lost somewhere along the road? I've finally updated from F20 to F23, which meant I finally upgrading from kde4 to kde5 (konsole 15.12.1), and I'm not finding where can one load a css.
Can this be reopened? I can't seem to find a way to change the bug status. (Probably my account doesn't have the necessary permissions.)