| Summary: | Subpar UX when opening the terminal panel but Konsole is not installed | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kate | Reporter: | JokerGermany <sp4m.an.joker> |
| Component: | application | Assignee: | KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | christoph, nate, waqar.17a |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/commit/5af08dcce62d91132f3060e22ee98609dc6659a5 | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | 23.08 |
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Description
JokerGermany
2021-06-09 08:06:50 UTC
I have to correct me, you can't reproduce the error by uninstalling konsole. You have to take a distribution without konsole. After konsole was installed once, kate is working even and using konsole even when it is uninstalled oO We can't use just any terminal emulator. That is just not possible, and will never happen. (In reply to Waqar Ahmed from comment #2) > We can't use just any terminal emulator. That is just not possible, and will > never happen. then show a error message, when konsole isn't found. But to understand this right: we are talking about the terminal window that is "integrated" inside Kate? And that it stays "empty" if there is no Konsole installed? If that is the case, we could show there some place holder that at least tells that Konsole is missing. That should be no issue to implement. But perhaps I misunderstand the issue at hand. Yeah, using random arbitrary terminal apps there is not technically possible, but we can and should display an error message when Konsole is not installed. Or not even show the option. Or, do as Dolphin does, and show a button to install Konsole! This is really cool. @Christoph: Yes the button just do nothing, when konsole isn't installed. @Nate: Pls don't hide the option, because then there is the risk that the user didn't get to know about the feature. A error Message or even a button to install konsole would be great. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1181 Git commit 5af08dcce62d91132f3060e22ee98609dc6659a5 by Waqar Ahmed. Committed on 03/04/2023 at 19:00. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'. Konsole: Show error when konsole not found Show error in place of the terminal if konsole is not installed M +19 -0 addons/konsole/kateconsole.cpp M +2 -0 addons/konsole/kateconsole.h https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/commit/5af08dcce62d91132f3060e22ee98609dc6659a5 |