SUMMARY In previous versions, Konsole tab bar used to trim the end of the hostname (when there was a larger number of tabs) for tabs with SSH sessions - so "server123.some.company.domain" would become "server123.so...". After upgrading to the latest Tumbleweed, the beginning is now trimmed, thus most of my tabs are titled "...company.domain". STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Have a narrow window or many tabs. 2. Open SSH sessions in the tabs. OBSERVED RESULT Beginning of the hostname trimmed. EXPECTED RESULT End of the hostname trimmed. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2
I believe this was an intentional change. This is one of those "can't please everyone" issues, sadly.
What was the reasoning, if it indeed was intentional?
Probably a similar bug report from someone saying "my tab names are all the same at the end and get elided into invisibility; all the interesting stuff is at the beginning!"
Right, I thought you had a specific request/commit in mind :) Although, if we cannot find specific reasons, perhaps the change was accidental after all?
perhaps it's a longshot, but have you considered to use colors, or split screen for those? tabs *will* be to crowded and we will need to remove parts of the name. on the splits, if you open them horizontally, you will have the full name of the sessions at all times, and you can expand / shrink them when you need to work on something fullscreen.
Colours wouldn't work, as I open SSH sessions to many different hosts, it's not a smaller set. Splitting wouldn't work as I prefer to work with fullscreen windows 99% of the time. Showing the beginning on the tab title was perfect for me - but I do appreciate the suggestions for possible changes in the workflow/habits :)
Heya, any thoughts on this? This is a problem that makes Konsole harder to use every day for me - if we don't have a strong usecase to prefer the changed behaviour, perhaps it's easier to reverse :)
Still the same in the latest KDE version in Tumbleweed - any thoughts on reversing this change?
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/merge_requests/519