| Summary: | terminal emulation through the serial port | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konsole | Reporter: | chris |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Konsole Developer <konsole-devel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED LATER | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | dr, robertknight |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Mandrake RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
chris
2002-02-28 21:36:30 UTC
On Thursday 28 February 2002 22:36 chris@oofus.demon.co.uk wrote: > Package: konsole > Version: 1.1 Beta2 (using KDE 2.9.0 2 (3.0 beta2)) > Severity: wishlist > Installed from: Mandrake Linux 8.1 i586 - Vitamin > Compiler: gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 > 2.96-0.62mdk) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.8-26mdksmp > OS/Compiler notes: > > Would be very usefull (at my place of work) to be able to direct Konsole = at > a serial port (i.e. like hyperterm in Windows) to allow remote terminal > communications. Hi! Use screen for that. You can start "screen /dev/ttyS0" inside konsole. I do= n't think konsole should support that natively. Greetings Stephan --=20 life is too short to make mistakes Screen is not very 'user friendly' for the people at work I would envisage using this. Something with a nice simple GUI for config and usage is what they need ! I still think it's a good idea. Komport started to do exactly what I wanted but that seems to have been abandoned now. > Screen is not very 'user friendly' for the people at work I would envisage using this.
I am not objecting to the request itself but if you need something 'user friendly' then surely a terminal is not really appropriate in the first place?
Why, when most of the parts are there, would you want to force the user to run a console-command to get a serial terminal? It seems pretty easy to simply add an option in the Edit Profile General tab that is a command or device option buttons. If you select the device option, the command field becomes a device field, and instead of specifying a command such as a shell, you specify a serial device such as /dev/ttyS0. > It seems pretty easy to simply add an option in the
> Edit Profile General tab that is a command or device option buttons.
Adding an extra control to a dialog is indeed easy. The risk with any new feature is the incremental cost (in increased UI, code and testing complexity) of lots of little features added over time.
One of the basic tenets of Linux or UNIX is that files and devices can be treated the same. One of the basic tenets of terminal emulators is that they can connect to remote devices. Why would you not want to include this functionality in the GUI? The complexity to implement is minimal and the functionality makes sense. Reopen when someone can provide a patch |