Bug 482549

Summary:	Add integration for container tooling
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	akselmo, bribbers, doublejuniorbaconcheeseburger, sfalken, shawn.r.dunn, tim, timaeos
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	qt6
Version First Reported In:	24.02.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Neal Gompa 2024-03-06 15:52:03 UTC

SUMMARY
The GNOME folks have made a new terminal emulator tool called ptyxis (formerly "prompt") that among other things, includes specific integration for container tooling (such as Podman, Incus, and nspawn). This allows it to offer features oriented around Toolbx/Distrobox environments to make it easier to operate in that manner out of the box.

There's more detail about this feature in Ptyxis from this blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2023/12/14/prompt/


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora Linux 40 (KDE Plasma)
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This is tracked downstream in Fedora KDE here: https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/478

Comment 1 Shawn W Dunn 2024-03-06 15:55:10 UTC

This also something that openSUSE Kalpa would be interested in, and will be looking into

https://code.opensuse.org/Kalpa/Development/issue/12

Comment 2 Akseli Lahtinen 2024-12-22 01:10:04 UTC

What would be the bare minimum featureset? And explain this for someone who has not used much containers before. :D

Comment 3 Bart Ribbers 2024-12-22 21:17:15 UTC

The bare minimum would be some button somewhere (probably under both "New Tab" and "Split View") to start a new tab or split view inside a discovered Distrobox container. This so the user doesn't have to do `distrobox enter <container name>` manually. Preferably these containers get discovered automatically, `distrobox list` can be used to list the available containers.

Additionally it would be nice to be able to configure Konsole to enter into a container by default, although imo that's already more than the "bare minimum".

Comment 4 Bart Ribbers 2024-12-22 21:25:23 UTC

Also "Fedora RPMs" should probably be removed from the Platform of this issue, this applies to literally any distribution that has Distrobox and/or Toolbox available.