Version: 1.3 (using KDE KDE 3.2.0) Installed from: SuSE RPMs As screenspace is always precious and most of the screens are wider than high it was a nice option to move the session icons to the left or right side in order to gain some more lines for the terminal. With switching to session tabs this option is gone and at least for me (programmer/admin) it's a real regression compared to the former versions of Konsole. I really would like to have this option back.
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Reading the QT docs 3.3 it appears that the tab position has only 2 options: QTabWidget::Top - above the pages QTabWidget::Bottom - below the pages Not sure if qt or kde/konsole changed for kde 3.2.0.
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I complained about this a few weeks ago, and it was pointed out that this was because they switched to QTTabWidget to handle the tabs. I don't understand why really. The old method of handling the tabs worked great and didn't hamper their placement. QTTabWidget is a serious handicap to such a fine program as Konsole. So here comes the classic saying, if it ain't broken, don't fix it. Why dump the old tabs system which was working a lot better than what replaced it.
does qt4 help out with this bug in anyway?
I looked into this and I believe it does. QT4 now supports tab widgets on the sides as well as the top and bottom.
Yes Qt4 does... they must have added it later after the previews... I can't get Qt4/0KDE4 to compile yet... I wonder what tabs on the side look like... QTabWidget::North 0 The tabs are drawn above the pages. QTabWidget::South 1 The tabs are drawn below the pages. QTabWidget::West 2 The tabs are drawn to the left of the pages. QTabWidget::East 3 The tabs are drawn to the right of the pages.
Being able to put the tabs on the left (or right?) is especially useful when you are supporting a large number of connections into other machines, don't bother with icons, and just use text to identify each window. Trying to do this with tabs on top or bottom is pretty pointless.
I would think it will be in KDE4.0. Currently KDE4/kdelibs is not working well enough to bother trying to add this feature.
> QTabWidget::West 2 The tabs are drawn to the left of the pages. > QTabWidget::East 3 The tabs are drawn to the right of the pages. These values for the tab shape cause the tabs to be rendered with vertical text which is difficult to read. I won't be implementing that, although there is a possibility for a vertical list (like Kate) in future which could facilitate a very large number of sessions open at once - although the items would still have to be called tabs since that is a word used frequently in the user interface and documentation.
I think this depends upon bug #54194
Until this is allowed in Qt/KDE, this won't happen easily.
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