Bug 452869

Summary:	[Feature Request]: visualize character limits via background image/color
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Matthias Weiss <matthias_weiss>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ninjalj
Priority:	NOR
Version:	21.12.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	cc2f552d7471adde14880dd61e68da0a2ef697f2	Version Fixed In:	v20.12.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	attachment-2013-0.html

Description Matthias Weiss 2022-04-22 15:18:51 UTC

On several occasions it would be beneficial to visually see where for instance the "80 character line width" is by having the background change at that mark. So while typing in the terminal you could already see when you are approaching the limit.

The width should be configurable in the konsole settings.

Possible solutions would be
* allow special SVG backgrounds were certain elements in the image can anchor to a certain width provided by konsole
* a background color that changes brightness or hue at the character width limit
* a vertical line in the background with a slightly changed background color to make the character width limit visible

Comment 1 tcanabrava 2022-04-22 17:50:31 UTC

Created attachment 148306 [details]
attachment-2013-0.html

We have that already.
See profile preferences


On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 17:19 Matthias Weiss <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org>
wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=452869
>
>             Bug ID: 452869
>            Summary: [Feature Request]: visualize character limits via
>                     background image/color
>            Product: konsole
>            Version: 21.12.3
>           Platform: Other
>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: REPORTED
>           Severity: wishlist
>           Priority: NOR
>          Component: general
>           Assignee: konsole-devel@kde.org
>           Reporter: matthias_weiss@gmx.at
>   Target Milestone: ---
>
> On several occasions it would be beneficial to visually see where for
> instance
> the "80 character line width" is by having the background change at that
> mark.
> So while typing in the terminal you could already see when you are
> approaching
> the limit.
>
> The width should be configurable in the konsole settings.
>
> Possible solutions would be
> * allow special SVG backgrounds were certain elements in the image can
> anchor
> to a certain width provided by konsole
> * a background color that changes brightness or hue at the character width
> limit
> * a vertical line in the background with a slightly changed background
> color to
> make the character width limit visible
>
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Comment 2 ninjalj 2022-11-10 01:49:47 UTC

There's already an option at profile settings: Appearance→Miscellaneous→Display Vertical line at column