Bug 400940

This is a feature suggestion for kate, the editor.

I accidentally clicked on the submit button before I could finish (I actually first write content in my editor, then paste it into the textview widget here; but when I typed the summary, I was trying to see if there was a duplicate, and I thought I could find it but somehow I ended up misclicking ... and now I can't find it again ... :\ :/)

This feature suggestion is to ask whether it may be possible to embed a widget with KDE konsole within kate - ideally on bottom, but a user could decide where.

The editor geany has a similar functionality, in that it allows you to embed a vte-terminal, which is quite convenient. I'd love to have this for kate too.

I assume that it should not be too difficult to embed konsole into kate, since I think yakuake embeds konsole already, so the code should be all there.

That leaves of course two questions:

(1) Whether the feature suggestion here has any merit or usability on its own.

I believe it may be useful to be able to use a konsole terminal within kate, since some developers
may want to do so. It should be disabled by default so that most users do not have this by
default - but there should be some option, perhaps under "advanced" or something like that, where
a user could enable this.

(2) Whether there is someone willing and able to do implement this if (1) is approved.

I do not know how difficult this task would be, but I believe it should not be too difficult
since other applications, such as yakuake, do this already. (I do not know C++ that well to 
know how to do this myself.)

PS: I may have overlooked this functionality already existing, in which case it could perhaps be made more prominent in the preferences setting or somewhere, for a user to enable/disable this.

The options confuse me a little bit right now.

If this is not a good suggestion, please just close it. I suggest to keep this issue open
not longer than a year at max, so as to not clutter the tracker database (when I searched for
this I found suggestions that were almost 10 years old, which I think is way too old, so I would
prefer this issue to be closed after a while either way.)

Thank you for reading!