Bug 195874

Summary:	Missing features in KDE 4's konsole
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	David <wizzardx>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED REMIND
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	robertknight, wizzardx
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description David 2009-06-10 12:56:03 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Hi there. Konsole in KDE 4.2 is missing a few features that I used regularly in KDE 3.5:

- Right-click menus on tabs titles, for quick access to functions.

- Icon on the bottom of the screen for making new tabs (I now need to
use keyboard shortcuts, I like having something to click on)

- Ability to send signals to tabs (like kill, when a process freezes)

- Ability to set how long KDE will notify you after, when a tab is
inactive (10 seconds is too short most of the time).

Are there plans to re-add these sometime?

Comment 1 Robert Knight 2009-06-10 16:48:34 UTC

> - Icon on the bottom of the screen for making new tabs
> (I now need to use keyboard shortcuts, I like having something to click on)

There is a setting for this, go to Settings -> Edit Current Profile -> Tabs.  Check the 'Show 'New Tab' and 'Close Tab' buttons in tab bar' checkbox.  It is not on by default because I want to encourage keyboard shortcuts to be the default quick-access tool.

> - Right-click menus on tabs titles, for quick access to functions.

There is a bug report for that.  Again, I have nothing against it but the keyboard shortcuts are much more extensive out of the box in KDE 4.  Having said that, this is on the roadmap as a minor feature mostly for people used to KDE 3.

> - Ability to set how long KDE will notify you after, when a tab is
> inactive (10 seconds is too short most of the time).

This feature still exists and is available via the View menu or Ctrl+Shift+I (monitor for Inactive) or Ctrl+Shift+A (monitor for Active)

> - Ability to send signals to tabs (like kill, when a process freezes)

If you want to close a tab, use File -> Close Tab.  If you want to kill the current program, press Ctrl+C.  There are a small number of programs which block Ctrl+C (eg. SVN's command-line client) - for these, the only option currently is to open another tab and kill them manually using (killall <command name>)

Comment 2 Robert Knight 2009-06-10 16:49:27 UTC

Hi David,

There are already bug reports opened against the issues mentioned in your report - so I will close this one for now.

Comment 3 David 2009-06-10 17:07:45 UTC

Thanks for your replies. One thing though (I couldn't find an existing bug report for this):

> 
> > - Ability to set how long KDE will notify you after, when a tab is
> > inactive (10 seconds is too short most of the time).
> 
> This feature still exists and is available via the View menu or Ctrl+Shift+I
> (monitor for Inactive) or Ctrl+Shift+A (monitor for Active)
> 

What I meant here is, the ability to set after *how long* Konsole will notify the user about inactivity. The default seems to be 10 seconds, with no way for users to set it, like they could in KDE 3.5.

I found this a very useful feature in 3.5 (eg: for scripts which send output every 10 minutes, so I want to know after 15 minutes if they haven't sent any output).

Is there a setting somewhere for this (that I've missed), or do you plan to add this later?

Thanks,

David.