Bug 143914

Summary: run in terminal: option to hide terminal
Product: [Applications] kmenuedit Reporter: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: wstephenson
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2007-04-06 21:59:10 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Sometime you have to use "run in terminal" for some apps, but then often terminal serves no purpose for the user -- it is just an environment for launching app. It would be useful to have such option "hide terminal window", so for the user only app would be visible (also when alt-tab app switching).
Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 18:40:58 UTC 
Is this for apps that demand a terminal, but then don't use it?  Otherwise a script should be executable and have the right #! magic.  Sounds like the app should be fixed.  Can you give me some examples where this is necessary and the app is correct?
Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2009-11-24 17:01:16 UTC 
For example matlab (it has correct first line). There have to be more apps, because I started using matlab recently, and the report is from 2007, so back then I knew about other app with such behaviour too (i.e. need for existing shell in the background -- maybe for having stdout or something like this).
Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2012-07-31 14:51:47 UTC 
I don't think the listed use cases make sense. If some applications decide to *require* a terminal for it to start up, there must be a valid reason or need behind that decision, even if in most cases the terminal requirement seems useless to the users. If there is really no valid reason, ask the developers of those applications to remove that requirement. It is not up to kmenuedit to workaround that kind of wrong decision.

Also, I don't think it is possible or worthwhile for Konsole to support that feature.  (I'm a Konsole contributor).