Bug 200695

Summary:	No "Save As" or way to create a new profile in "Edit Profiles"
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	David Rankin <drankinatty>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	robertknight
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Attachments:	kde3 konsole context menu screenshot kde4 konsole context menu

Description David Rankin 2009-07-18 19:48:37 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.96)
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

The is no convenient way to create a new profile from the rt-click context menu or from within "Edit Current Profile" dialog. The broken kde3 konsole feature is to be able to edit your current profile and change the name and have the new profile "ADDED" as a new profile instead of "REPLACING" the current profile.

In fact, the only way you can make a new profile is to (1) Unhide the Menu Bar, (2) Settings -> Manage Profiles, (3) Choose "New Profile" and then you can enter a new name for the profile and define it.

The "Edit Current Profile" has always allowed you to save a new profile by simply entering a new name and this functionality has always been available from the rt-click context menu. This needs to be fixed.

Additionally, the rt-click context menu is missing 70% of the features available in the kde3 context menu. The differences are shown in the attached screenshots. This functionality needs to be restored. Konsole in KDE4 is cumbersome to use compared to konsole in KDE3. All features accessible in the KDE3 konsole context menu should be available in the kde4 konsole context menu.

Comparison screenshots provided in following post.

Comment 1 David Rankin 2009-07-18 19:49:53 UTC

Created attachment 35439 [details]
kde3 konsole context menu screenshot

Comment 2 David Rankin 2009-07-18 19:50:46 UTC

Created attachment 35440 [details]
kde4 konsole context menu

Comment 3 Robert Knight 2009-07-19 20:11:37 UTC

Hello David,

The 'New Profile' button in Settings -> Manage Profiles creates a copy of the selected profile.  This is the equivalent of editing an existing profile and then saving it under another name.  The reason for changing the approach was because the old system resulted in a lot of bug reports where people changed their settings via the menu and did not understand why they didn't "stick" when they restarted the terminal or why they only affected the current tab and not the others.

Regarding the context menu, I wanted to keep the menu tidy and restricted to only commonly used actions - I felt that did not include everything in the 'Settings' menu.  Plus, if you did want to change a group of settings at once (eg. font size, color scheme) then going into the settings menu from the context menu repeatedly is not very convenient.  Instead Konsole in KDE 4 is built around the idea of creating groups of settings for different purposes and then providing quick access to that from the context menu.

As a power-user feature, you can have some control over which actions appear in the context menu by editing the /usr/share/kde4/apps/konsole/sessionui.rc file.