Bug 137659

Summary:	Allow different fonts for different sessions
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Franz Häuslschmid <lukrez>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
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Description Franz Häuslschmid 2006-11-21 10:39:29 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

It would be nice to have a different font family and font size for different sessions.  As an example, I use Pine in a colored Konsole terminal and would like to have a different font for improved readability.  I noticed that there is a font property in the session tab of the "Configure Konsole ..." (Konsole einrichten ... in my system's locale) -- it just happens to be deactivated.

Comment 1 Robert Knight 2006-11-21 13:37:53 UTC

Good suggestion.  Konsole's settings handling can be confusing for end-users and developers at the moment.  I am hoping to create a better replacement in the future.

Comment 2 Franz Häuslschmid 2006-11-21 14:08:07 UTC

In my situation, I would also be happy, if I could specify the font Konsole uses by setting the command line that invokes Konsole appropriately.  That is something like

  konsole --font "Misc Console" -e pine

I know, that `--fn|--font' is a Qt option that is not available to Konsole.  Is there another trick, that I could use?

Comment 3 Robert Knight 2006-11-21 14:31:51 UTC

I am not so sure about that.

The problem with allowing these things to be specified on the command-line is that you then have configuration options coming from many different places, and the user may have different expectations of which settings take priority than I do.

Plus there may be possibility for misunderstanding.  Does "--font" refer to the font used by the menus and dialogs in Konsole or the terminal font?  (I know you mean the latter, but I hope you see my point).

Comment 4 Robert Knight 2007-02-10 04:51:13 UTC

Confirmed.  It should be possible to specify fonts on a per-session basis.

Comment 5 Robert Knight 2007-05-08 00:23:20 UTC

Fixed in KDE 4.  Everything is customisable on a per-profile basis.