[Kde-kiosk] Disabling the tab bar in konqueror

[Ralph Jenkin]

I probably didn't explain this very well. I already have the tab bar with the 
new tab icon and the close tab hidden from view to begin with.

FWIW the setting in konquerorrc is:

[FMSettings]
AlwaysTabbedMode=false

Which is in any case the default. However, even when the tab bar is hidden, it 
is actually still present as a couple of pixels wide strip just above the 
main display area, though because it is so narrow, you would probably never 
notice the extra padding around the toolbar or menu you have directly above 
the main display area. When you double click on the tab bar, a new tab is 
opened, and this is also true of the the narrow strip "hidden" version of the 
tab bar, so that if you double-click in exactly the right spot in the area 
just above the main display area in konqueror, a new tab opens and the full 
blown tab bar emerges, with the new tab and close tab icons.

Now, for a normal konqueror with toolbars and such, you would never notice 
this "hidden" tab bar, and in fact it can be quite tricky finding the exact 
spot in such a case, so you may not even believe me when I tell you it's 
there (but trust me, keep clicking, you'll find it), however with the 
konqueror setup in my kiosk, which has no toolbars or menubar or even window 
decorations, the line is quite discernable, since it is the only thing there.

So what I want to be able to do is to be able to completely disable the tab 
bar, even in it's dormant narrow strip form, or else disable the double-click 
to create a new tab feature, so that no matter what the user does, a new tab 
cannot be created.

I'm beginning to suspect that such a thing is not possible, at least not in 
kde 3.3.2, but I figured it couldn't really hurt to ask.

Thanks anyway,

Ralph

On Thursday December 1 2005 20:04, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:00, Ralph Jenkin wrote:
> > The kiosk runs a single instance of konqueror in a profile that is
> > full-screen with basically everything that you can turn off turned off
> > (i.e. no tool-bars or menus, no shortcuts, no actions, etc) except for
> > the status bar. This worked fine in 3.2.3, however in 3.3.2 a small bar
> > sits at the top of the konqueror window, which when you double-click on
> > it reveals itself to be the tab bar by launching a new tab.
>
> I'm not using tabs in Konq with even newer versions (3.4 and beyond) and
> the tab bar can still be turned off.
>
> In a non-locked down Konqueror the setting that you are probably looking
> for is Settings->Configure Konqueror... and there in the Web Behaviour
> module Tabbed Browsing -> Hide the tab bar when only one tab is open. I
> don't know the corresponding config key, but that should be straightforward
> to find out.
>
> Hope this helps,