D21055: Highlight lines coming into view when scrolling

[Thomas Surrel]

thsurrel added a comment.


  Hi everyone,
  I would like to carry on working on this patch, I keep compiling my own version of konsole just for it. This patch is very valuable in situations where I have to go through logs with _very_ similar lines (which happens quite too often for my job) and I need to keep precise track of where I am while navigating. As Nate pointed it, this is not so useful when scrolling one line at a time, but when using the half-page jump with Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown, it becomes essential to have a visual hint of what lines have come into view.
  
  In D21055#465869 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D21055#465869>, @mglb wrote:
  
  > F6826289: out.gif <https://phabricator.kde.org/F6826289>
  >  Fading out solves additional use cases:
  >
  > - something sometimes outputs always the same line (debug message) to a terminal. Does it spams the line in a loop right now, or I'm looking at previous lines? (for this the feature would need to work for new lines too)
  > - Repeated scrolling is distinguishable
  
  
  This looks really nice and would indeed make this patch useful in the case of scrolling. But fading based on a timer would kill the main feature I see in this: having a visual reference to be able to see what has moved. Maybe we have to find something in between the original proposal and this. What do you think ?
  
  Other question: should I keep this on Phabricator ?

REPOSITORY
  R319 Konsole

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D21055

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