[Konsole-devel] Bug#45074: "send input to all sessions" should be global, not session-local (or configurable)

[hans at ecke.ws]

Package: konsole
Version: 1.1.2 (using KDE 3.0.2 )
Severity: wishlist
Installed from:    Red Hat Linux 7.3
Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-5custom
OS/Compiler notes: 

Hi,

first, as always, thanks a lot for the great konsole application that makes many tasks so much easier.

I'm part-time sysadmin for a small cluster. Often I will have a konsole window open with root-sessions for each of the machines in the cluster. The "Send Input to All Sessions" feature makes many administration tasks that can not be automated a snap, since I only have to type once.

Recently I stumbled across an issue with this feature that I find rather dangerous: The "SItAS" flag is not global to a konsole window, but local to each session inside that window.

So I worked in one session, switching SItAS on and off as needed, then went and worked in another session (on another host). Suddenly the SItAS behavior was totally different! Loged in as root, I don't have to tell you that this can be quite dangerous.

Now the problem here was not that SItAS is session-local, but that my expectations were different and I did not explicitely test them before starting to work. (This is why I file this as a wishlist item)

Still, seeing how dangerous automatic writing into shell windows can be, I think it would be better to go with the less surprising option of making SItAS global and making the local behavior a configuration option.

This is just my personal opinion. You guys do a great job, and whatever you decide is fine with me. But it might be worth a thought.....

Cheers

Hans


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