[Konsole-devel] [Bug 162461] Please, disable profile inheritance

[Robert Knight]

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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2008-05-23 19:55 -------
> Since you didn't actually call the profiles "Child[1-7]" in the course
> of the next year you forget about the parent-child relationship of the
> profiles. 

The way I use profiles this confusion does not arise because the children inherit the icon of their parents - so I have, for example:

Platform 
Platform (Release)
Platform Alt Colors

Platform2 
Platform2 (Release)
Platform2 Alt Colors

or similar.  In this case it is quite obvious which is the parent profile and which are the children.   

> There could be something like "Change Multiple
> Profiles" in which you can choose the set of profiles you want to change

When you understand the inheritance mechanism I think it works quite well in practice but I think removing it and instead making it possible to edit multiple profiles at once as you suggest would be easier to understand, plus renaming "New Profile" to "Copy Profile" to clarify what it does.

One problem I can see with this though is how to represent conflicts when editing multiple profiles.  For example, if the two chosen profiles have different font settings, what to do with the font preview label and font size slider.