SUMMARY

First off, I'm glad the new split view finally landed with 19.08.0, so thanks for that. There is certainly room for improvement of  this feature, however. (Isn't there always?)

The new title bars that appear on each split view can take up a lot of screen real estate when there are a lot of splits. This is the main reason I configure the tab bar to be hidden and use the keyboard to navigate tabs instead.

We need a similar option for hiding the split view header. This would allow for splits to be completely "headless" and not take up space with a bulky header bar on each one. We also need proper shortcuts for navigating splits like we do with tabs (Bug 411113).

The options could be to show/hide the header, or to change its size for those who just want it smaller. Maybe even an option to only show it on a view when the mouse is hovering near its the top?

These two changes would make this feature much more usable and support a larger variety of workflows (especially for those who like to use the keyboard and don't like unnecessary UI elements cluttering their terminals).



STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Open konsole
2. Make some split views
3. Look for option to hide split headers

OBSERVED RESULT

Split view headers are not configurable.

EXPECTED RESULT

Split view headers should be configurable.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
 
KDE Frameworks 5.54.0
Qt 5.11.3 (built against 5.11.3)
The xcb windowing system

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION