[Konsole-devel] [Bug 162444] Support temporarily switching the color scheme

[Robert Knight]

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Konsole 2.x doesn't support |Support temporarily
                   |temporarily switching the   |switching the color scheme
                   |color schema                |



------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2008-05-22 03:03 -------
> has now become a 10+8-click action. 10 clicks creating a 'temporary'
> new profile and switching to it: 

Creating and deleting profiles every time you want to change the background color is unnecessary.  I would create three or four profiles with different color settings and just switch between them.  My profile list looks something like:

- Shell
- KDE 4
- KDE 4 Alt Colors
- KDE 4 Release
- Shell Pastel Colors

One feature which is not made obvious in the UI is that profiles inherit settings from their parent profile, the parent being the profile which was selected when you click 'New Profile'.  In the example list above, if I change the font size in the "Shell" profile it will propagate to the other profiles unless I specifically set a different font size in one of them.

When you have a set of profiles created selecting one of them is just a matter of right click -> Change Profile -> [Profile Name].

Having said that, I am not opposed to the idea of adding a menu to change the color scheme for a single tab rather than a profile.  There are temporary settings for changing the scrollback and font size amongst other things.  The problem there is the confusion over whether a setting applies to all tabs permanently or only to the current one.

> BTW, I'm also missing the context menus right-clicking a tab. 

There is a separate bug report for that.