Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.2) Installed from: RedHat RPMs OS: Linux You should be able to run more than one terminal in kate, or open multiple terminal tabs in the bottom window. It seems that in version 2.5.2, it's only possible to have one active terminal session running.
Just curious, why do you need multiple embedded konsoles? It will look cluttered, if you have a konsole tabbar _additionally_ to the sidebar-tabbar on the bottom. You could use an external process of Konsole as well :)
Created attachment 15723 [details] screencap of bottom of application Attached is a screencap of the bottom of the app. There's a big grey bar next to "Find" and "Terminal." From the look of the buttons, I inferred that I would be able to add another terminal button to the grey bar. I can understand wanting to avoid a cluttered look, but the space is there, why not let people add applications (maybe provide a generic interface to allow the embedding of other things, I don't know what, but you never know). The reason I encountered this was because I was writing a terminal application that I was executing from one directory and manipulating another. I kept having to "cd ../../newdir" "cd ../../olddir" and then spent 20 minutes searching through kate settings before I realized it wasn't possible.
ok, I see your point. Multiple embedded consoles are not supported right now. You can do this with screen [1], thogh. Screen runs several console sessions simultaneously (new session: C-a c; next/prev session: C-a n/p; C means CTRL) Maybe we should even mark this as `wontfix` then? [1] http://www.manpage.org/cgi-bin/man/man2html?query=screen
If you think so. I just wanted to solicit feedback on the feature. It just depends how feature rich the kate team wants to get. Kate is obviously in kind of a blurry area between IDE and text editor.
> It just depends how feature rich the kate team wants to get. One of the most important questions is also: Who is going to implement it?
I would find a feature like this really useful! I've often wished for it actually! Saying "You could use an external process of Konsole" is like saying the Terminal tab isn't useful in the first place, :) (I know, it was tongue-in-cheek). Please don't mark it as WONTFIX!
This is fixed as of 742261. You can just do a 'CTRL+SHIFT+N' in your embedded konsole and it works the same as in konsole ;)
Kate version 16.08.1 'CTRL+SHIFT+N' not work!