[konsole] [Bug 474971] UI broken: menu bar lost, tabs on top

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474971

--- Comment #1 from tcanabrava at kde.org ---
I’m not going to work on this because of how this bug is worded, if you
want to make sure things like this don’t happen in the future, you can join
the team as a reviewer.

Let me paste here an excerpt of the license you accepted:

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On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 at 09:46 arne anka <bugzilla_noreply at kde.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474971
>
>             Bug ID: 474971
>            Summary: UI broken: menu bar lost, tabs on top
>     Classification: Applications
>            Product: konsole
>            Version: 23.08.1
>           Platform: Debian unstable
>                 OS: Linux
>             Status: REPORTED
>           Severity: critical
>           Priority: NOR
>          Component: general
>           Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
>           Reporter: kde-bugs at ginguppin.de
>   Target Milestone: ---
>
> SUMMARY
> ***
> after update to konsole, the menu bar is lost and the tab bar is suddenly
> on
> top.
> ***
>
>
> STEPS TO REPRODUCE
> 1. update konsole
> 2. start konsole
> 3. watch totally f'up UI
>
> As incredibly it sounds, accoding to
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/12wb9cc/latest_konsole_moved_the_tabs_to_the_top_how_to/
> that corruption is intentional!
> Apparently someone decided that their private prefernces have to be forced
> on
> each and everybody without any respect to their decisions or settings --
> to add
> insult to injury their's neither an informtion popup nor di that someone
> ever
> consider that not everybody uses that horrible hamburger menu!
> Thus, people are stuck with a wilfully broken UI without easy means to fick
> that f'up!
>
> I am very afraid of this  authoritarian and patronizing attitude
> proliferation
> through all of the KDE ecosystem, and I fail to understand how that level
> of
> ruthlessness and disrepect even is possible (although revent developments
> at
> Mozilla seem to indicate that this is spreading) -- but if that somebody
> seriously thinks it is OK to behave badly just because they think they know
> better than everbody else, what everybody else ought to do, maybe they're
> better of at Apple's!
>
> Please, fix this ASAP and refrain in future from breaking established
> standards, and what's more, users' configurations just because some
> isolated
> people don't like how others enjoy freedom.
>
> OBSERVED RESULT
> konsole UI broken and w/o research close to unusable
>
> EXPECTED RESULT
> UI stays as before, no changes of established and configured UI and
> functionality w/o prior information and a clear way to fix/change back
>
> SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
> Windows:
> macOS:
> Linux/KDE Plasma: Debain/SID  6.5.0-1-amd64 (64-bit)
> (available in About System)
> KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
> KDE Frameworks Version: 5.107.0
> Qt Version: 5.15.10
>
> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
>
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