[Konsole-devel] Bug#39809: 'History' slightly misleading label for saved lines

[hans at ecke.ws]

Package: konsole
Version: 1.1 (using KDE 3.0.0 )
Severity: normal
Installed from:    Red Hat Linux 7.2.92
Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-107)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-0.4custom
OS/Compiler notes: 

Hi,

in konsole, you talk about 'History' when you mean the saved lines (the stuff you would set via Xterm*saveLines in your .Xdefaults) that have scrolled through the PTY. 

The term 'History' is of course appropriate.

The only problem is that it already has a strong meaning for another, closely related application: your shell. 

Indeed, when I first saw 'History' in menu items and other places in konsole, I stopped briefly and wondered how konsole would cooperate with my shell, how to make such a thing portable and so on.

'Find in History' is therefore a bit ambiguous in that it is not obvious about whose history you are talking about: konsole's or the shell's.

This problem is not very serious and I can't really offer you a better alternative. But maybe you could think about something?

Thanks for listening.

Hans

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