Version: (using KDE 4.2.4) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Hi there. Konsole in KDE 4.2 is missing a few features that I used regularly in KDE 3.5: - Right-click menus on tabs titles, for quick access to functions. - Icon on the bottom of the screen for making new tabs (I now need to use keyboard shortcuts, I like having something to click on) - Ability to send signals to tabs (like kill, when a process freezes) - Ability to set how long KDE will notify you after, when a tab is inactive (10 seconds is too short most of the time). Are there plans to re-add these sometime?
> - Icon on the bottom of the screen for making new tabs > (I now need to use keyboard shortcuts, I like having something to click on) There is a setting for this, go to Settings -> Edit Current Profile -> Tabs. Check the 'Show 'New Tab' and 'Close Tab' buttons in tab bar' checkbox. It is not on by default because I want to encourage keyboard shortcuts to be the default quick-access tool. > - Right-click menus on tabs titles, for quick access to functions. There is a bug report for that. Again, I have nothing against it but the keyboard shortcuts are much more extensive out of the box in KDE 4. Having said that, this is on the roadmap as a minor feature mostly for people used to KDE 3. > - Ability to set how long KDE will notify you after, when a tab is > inactive (10 seconds is too short most of the time). This feature still exists and is available via the View menu or Ctrl+Shift+I (monitor for Inactive) or Ctrl+Shift+A (monitor for Active) > - Ability to send signals to tabs (like kill, when a process freezes) If you want to close a tab, use File -> Close Tab. If you want to kill the current program, press Ctrl+C. There are a small number of programs which block Ctrl+C (eg. SVN's command-line client) - for these, the only option currently is to open another tab and kill them manually using (killall <command name>)
Hi David, There are already bug reports opened against the issues mentioned in your report - so I will close this one for now.
Thanks for your replies. One thing though (I couldn't find an existing bug report for this): > > > - Ability to set how long KDE will notify you after, when a tab is > > inactive (10 seconds is too short most of the time). > > This feature still exists and is available via the View menu or Ctrl+Shift+I > (monitor for Inactive) or Ctrl+Shift+A (monitor for Active) > What I meant here is, the ability to set after *how long* Konsole will notify the user about inactivity. The default seems to be 10 seconds, with no way for users to set it, like they could in KDE 3.5. I found this a very useful feature in 3.5 (eg: for scripts which send output every 10 minutes, so I want to know after 15 minutes if they haven't sent any output). Is there a setting somewhere for this (that I've missed), or do you plan to add this later? Thanks, David.