Bug 126042

Summary: Embed multiple terminals in Kate
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: Nick Pietraniec <npietran>
Component: generalAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: x60217
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: screencap of bottom of application

Description Nick Pietraniec 2006-04-21 20:03:27 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs
OS:                Linux

You should be able to run more than one terminal in kate, or open multiple terminal tabs in the bottom window.  It seems that in version 2.5.2, it's only possible to have one active terminal session running.
Comment 1 Dominik Haumann 2006-04-21 20:08:39 UTC
Just curious, why do you need multiple embedded konsoles?

It will look cluttered, if you have a konsole tabbar _additionally_ to the sidebar-tabbar on the bottom. You could use an external process of Konsole as well :)
Comment 2 Nick Pietraniec 2006-04-21 21:56:47 UTC
Created attachment 15723 [details]
screencap of bottom of application

Attached is a screencap of the bottom of the app.  There's a big grey bar next
to "Find" and "Terminal."  From the look of the buttons, I inferred that I
would be able to add another terminal button to the grey bar.  I can understand
wanting to avoid a cluttered look, but the space is there, why not let people
add applications (maybe provide a generic interface to allow the embedding of
other things, I don't know what, but you never know).  

The reason I encountered this was because I was writing a terminal application
that I was executing from one directory and manipulating another.  I kept
having to "cd ../../newdir"  "cd ../../olddir" and then spent 20 minutes
searching through kate settings before I realized it wasn't possible.
Comment 3 Dominik Haumann 2006-04-21 22:21:58 UTC
ok, I see your point. Multiple embedded consoles are not supported right now. You can do this with screen [1], thogh. Screen runs several console sessions simultaneously (new session: C-a c; next/prev session: C-a n/p; C means CTRL)

Maybe we should even mark this as `wontfix` then?

[1] http://www.manpage.org/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=screen
Comment 4 Nick Pietraniec 2006-04-21 23:29:43 UTC
If you think so.  I just wanted to solicit feedback on the feature.  It just depends how feature rich the kate team wants to get.  Kate is obviously in kind of a blurry area between IDE and text editor.  
Comment 5 Dominik Haumann 2006-04-22 10:00:13 UTC
> It just depends how feature rich the kate team wants to get.
One of the most important questions is also: Who is going to implement it?
Comment 6 Mihai Basa 2006-08-10 12:15:01 UTC
I would find a feature like this really useful! I've often wished for it actually!

Saying "You could use an external process of Konsole" is like saying the Terminal tab isn't useful in the first place, :) (I know, it was tongue-in-cheek).

Please don't mark it as WONTFIX!
Comment 7 Adam Treat 2007-11-27 18:28:49 UTC
This is fixed as of 742261.  You can just do a 'CTRL+SHIFT+N' in your embedded konsole and it works the same as in konsole ;)
Comment 8 Alex 60217 2016-09-27 12:06:12 UTC
Kate version 16.08.1 'CTRL+SHIFT+N' not work!