| Summary: | Konsole does not create profiles by default | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konsole | Reporter: | Andrew Brouwers <abrouwers> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Konsole Developer <konsole-devel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | a.samirh78, dev+kde, lylewang.au |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 17.04.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Andrew Brouwers
2017-06-03 18:33:55 UTC
I also did some debugging just now, because I was migrating my old Linux user account to a new one to clean up years-old cruft. Here are my observations. Initial condition: first Konsole start, there is no ~/.config/konsolerc and no ~/.local/share/konsole/ yet. - there is no profile listed in Settings -> Profiles - the context menu, however, has the item Switch to profile → Default profile I now go to Settings and want to add a new profile, and call it “Default”. Now Konsole complains that a profile of that name already exists, the dialog closes nonetheless and creates a profile with the Name “New Profile” instead. I can repeat that, each time the Profiles list grows by another item called “New Profile”. This in itself is a bug IMHO, as the dialog should not be closed in this situation. Now I rename one of those “New Profile” entries and it is renamed while all the others disappear from the list. In conclusion: - The “Default” profile is not reachable in the configuration GUI, maybe except via “Switch to profile” and then “Edit current profile”. - If a profile name already exists, the name is changed to New Profile. - And if that profile already exists, it is overwritten (or ignored?), because no additional file appears in ~/.local/share/konsole, but an additional item is created in the Profiles list. I am running current Arch packages: Konsole 20.08.2 KDE Frameworks 5.75.0 Qt 5.15.1 (built against 5.15.1) Plasma 5.20.0 I'm getting the same issue on latest Fedora 33 KDE spin. The "Default" profile seems a hard-coded option for "Switch Profile" and "New Tab". I have another laptop using Fedora 32 /KDE Plasma 5.18.5 has no such problem (upgraded from F28 or F29, installed a few years ago), once I remove all other profiles and make the current profile "default" one, then they won't show "Default" profile option / sub-menu when clicking on "File - New Tab" Things have changed over the years, the current situation is: - Profile name "Default" is reserved for the Default/fallback profile, which is hardcoded and created by Konsole on the fly from C++ code, it can't be "edited" per se, i.e. you can create a new profile based on it. When you run konsole and there are no .profile files in e.g. ~/.local/share/konsole the Default profile is used, and when you "edit current profile", it will let you change the settings and will pick a name, e.g. Profile 1, when you try to save the settings. The intention is that the "Default" profile will always be there, hardcoded/immutable as a fallback profile. - The Default profile now shows up in the context menus, you can switch to it... etc - There is a patch to make the Default profile show up in the Profile Manager dialog, see bug 433210 - The UI won't let you create multiple profiles with the same name *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 433210 *** |