Bug 206316

Summary:	Abbreviate home dir with a tilde in dynamic tab name
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	furue
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	robertknight
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	4.6
Sentry Crash Report:

Description furue 2009-09-05 02:46:55 UTC

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

I would be nice if konsole abbreviated the home directory with a tilde in the dynamic tab name.  Currently, I set "%D" for the tab name, which is more convenient to me than "%d" because I have many directory of the same name, such as "etc" and "utils".  But, since I spend most of time under my home directory, "/home/something/username" is redundant and takes up unnecessary space of the tab, which is already scarce.  So, I wish the home directory be abbreviated to "~" as with bash's "\w" prompt string (See the "PROMPTING" section of "man bash").

Regards,
Ryo

Comment 1 Robert Knight 2009-09-05 13:23:20 UTC

Some common directory names such as src,tmp are handled specially by abbreviating them to a single letter and then prepending the name of the previous directory to give more context.  You can change the list of 'common' directory names by adding the following to your konsolerc file (usually found in ~/.kde/share/config/)

[ProcessInfo]
CommonDirNames=src,tmp,etc,utils (etc.)

Comment 2 furue 2009-09-07 02:38:30 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Some common directory names such as src,tmp are handled specially by
> abbreviating them to a single letter and then prepending the name of the
> previous directory to give more context.  You can change the list of 'common'
> directory names by adding the following to your konsolerc file (usually found
> in ~/.kde/share/config/)
> 
> [ProcessInfo]
> CommonDirNames=src,tmp,etc,utils (etc.)

Thanks, but it's not clear to me how to abbreviate my home directory ("/home/somedir/myusername") to "~".  I've added the following two lines to ~/.kde/share/config/konsolerc  (Yes, the file had existed before I did anything to it)

[ProcessInfo]
CommonDirNames=/home/somedir/myusername

and invoked konsole, but nothing changed.

Comment 3 Kurt Hindenburg 2010-10-13 21:57:32 UTC

SVN commit 1185589 by hindenburg:

In the tab title, for %D change the user's home path with a ~ if it starts at the 
beginning.

FEATURE: 206316
FIXED-IN: 4.6


 M  +28 -1     ProcessInfo.cpp  
 M  +7 -0      ProcessInfo.h  
 M  +3 -0      Session.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1185589