Bug 189919 - Add a favorite commands feature to aid with repetitive typing
Summary: Add a favorite commands feature to aid with repetitive typing
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: yakuake
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 2.9.4
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eike Hein
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Reported: 2009-04-17 21:25 UTC by Marc Bohets
Modified: 2016-01-21 09:24 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Marc Bohets 2009-04-17 21:25:16 UTC
Version:           2.9.4 (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

arc wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Marc,

> I just read an article on new stuff in yakake on planet kde.
> 
> As a regular user of yakuake, I am missing a feature that could be very handy.
> It would be usefull to have a favorites menu to store a number of commands,
> instead of having to go into the history with the up arrow and whatch when the 
> command comes along.
> 
> Sometimes I use commands with lots of options, and instead of having to look 
> into man pages again, it would be handy if I could pick the command out of a 
> favorites menu.
> 
> If this is not the correct way for a feature request, plrase point me to the 
> good place.


the best place to file a feature request is
here: http://bugs.kde.org/

I'd ask you to go there and file it there too,
just so we don't forget about it, because it's
a really nice idea that I can see the use of :).


> Best rgds,

-- 
Regards,
Eike Hein, hein@kde.org
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2009-04-17 21:33:24 UTC
Renamed the request for clarity.
Comment 2 Xbehave 2010-01-31 17:48:19 UTC
This seams useless giving that most shells have aliases and and history searching (usually ctrl+r). However if you really want a GUI menu, I think this would need to be addressed in the konsole kpart not yakuake so I think the product should be set to konsole.
Comment 3 Eike Hein 2010-01-31 18:01:44 UTC
It's possible to address this in Yakuake, though I share your concerns about the utility of it.
Comment 4 countzero1981 2010-04-18 11:16:06 UTC
Hello, Eike!
Yakuake is a great application, and this was the only reason why I moved from Windows to Linux year ago.
I also need this feature with favorites. I'll describe, how I see it in my imagination... It should be not as menu, but as a bookmark panel in Firefox. First I thought that it should be below the console, near tabs panel. But now I understand, that in this case user will need to make additional mouse move to the down of the console. Perhaps position of favorites panel and tab panel should be configurable in Yakuake settings?.. To any command in this favorites panel user should be able to assign any Icon and Title in Yakuake settings. Work with Yakuake looks like the following: user moves mouse cursor to the top of the screen and Yakuake console appears with a favorites panel on top of it. User chooses one bookmark with a blue icon and a title "MC" and Midnight Commander starts in Yakuake. If a user choosed another icon with title "SSH:user@domain.com/home/user/", connection to SSH starts in Yakuake.
BTW, I see that Konsole has bookmarks, but only for folders, not for commands... And they are implemented as a menu, not as panel, this is bad for me. I never used Konsole as a program without Yakuake, so I think that this feature should be implemented in Yakuake.
PS: sorry for my bad English :)
Comment 5 mistermaker 2016-01-21 09:24:04 UTC
This would be a very useful feature. Yes there are history and alias built into shells but the problem is not everyone uses yakuake for a single machine. I work in a data center with thousands of machines and am constantly having to enter the same command on may different machines over ssh, history and aliases are useless in this case. Adding a right-click menu tree that custom commands could be added to would be very useful. Also if features like key-press emulation and/or input rate limits so that commands are not garbled on slow console connection would be helpful for this type of feature. This kind of functionality is built into the right-click menu of terminator but I prefer the drop down functionality and look of yakuake.