<font size="4"><font face="georgia,serif"><br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Jekyll Wu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adaptee@gmail.com" target="_blank">adaptee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would propose removing the --background-mode feature from konsole, because it was and is still a very hacky and immature feature even after it has been added for 4 years.<br>
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Its problems:<br>
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1. it only works for the very first window. The global shortcut only toggles the visibility of the very first window.<br>
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2. it doesn't remember and restore the position of the first window<br>
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3, it has never been further polished or developed after it was added.<br>
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Another strong proof is there are only 2 related reports about that option on <a href="http://bugs.kde.org" target="_blank">bugs.kde.org</a> :<br>
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<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258850" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.<u></u>cgi?id=258850</a><br>
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it is for a strange and unreproduciable startup warning message, not directly related with this --background-mode feature itself.<br>
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<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94348" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.<u></u>cgi?id=94348</a><br>
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That is why this --background-mode option was introduced. See comment #3.<br>
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A feature receiving almost zero bug reports is either perfect, or is something nobody uses . Based upon my above observation of its problems, I really think the latter explanation looks more convincing.<br>
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All in all, I feel that option is more like a trick or demonstration of "we can also do what yakuake does. well, kind of", other than a well-designed and mature feature. Although I have not got any statistics, I really doubt how many users really like, use or even know about that feature.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Hi, I would tend to agree. It is fine with me to remove when master is un-frozen.</div><div> Thanks</div><div> Kurt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Any idea ?<br>
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Regards<br>
Jekyll<br>
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