konsole and schemas

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
> Martijn Klingens wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 20:45, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Is it wanted (and if yes, is it acceptable?) that changing a "schema" 
>>> in a
>>> multisession console only applies the setting to the current 
>>> session?  If
>>> it is, it's ugly and confusing IMHO.
>>>
>>
>> Same for fonts if you ask me...
>>
>> And if those options popped up dialogs it would have been enough to 
>> add a checkbox 'only this session' or so in case someone finds a place 
>> where it does make sense. But these are no dialogs, so that's not an 
>> option.
>>
>> I'd vote for making the schema and font settings global.
> 
> 
> /me voting against!
> 
> I often use different settings for different sessions. [In fact,
> I am using it just now with 8 sessions and 4 different settings].

To outline my presently used example, which might explain its
usefulness for me to you (and maybe its possible usefulness for
you too  ;-)

* All the 8 sessions are in one frame
* 1 session is with a very small font, where I need to read long
   lines "as is" (can't scroll to the right with less -- and if you
   can tell me how to do it, *don't want* to here...)
* one session is with a very big font (because I prepare a live
   KDEPrint presentation here which shows some konsole output and
   I want to make it well visible for the audience from the beamer
   projection)
* one is a remote session as a normal user (I want to be aware
   that I am working on a different host by the different look)
* one is a remote session as root (I want to be aware that I am
   root in this session).

Hope you understand my defense of the present behaviour now. I
always thought it was intended and regarded it as ingenious...
I am dissapointed now that I see such a brilliant KDE feature to
be the product of pure neglectigence and lightmindedness...  ;-)
Please, in this case, don't start to care and to think...  ;-)

> (If you want to make it configurable, 'only this session' and
> 'all sessions' -- that's OK with me. Just don't take away the
> option to have it different in different simultaneous sessions).
> 

Cheers,
Kurt