[Konsole-devel] [Bug 162605] Malformed title bar in konsole window

[Robert Knight]

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------- Additional Comments From robertknight gmail com  2008-05-25 17:39 -------
Hello,

This is a 'feature' rather than a bug.  The reason is that folder names such as "bin","lib","tmp" etc. are very common which makes it difficult to tell multiple tabs apart from their title.  When these names are encountered in the directory path they are shortened to a single letter and the name of the preceding directory is added.

So supposed you have 3 tabs open:

/usr/bin , ...myproject/bin, myproject/src, anotherproject/src

Ordinarily they would be shortened to:

bin : <prog> , bin : <prog> , src : <prog> , src : <prog>

Which would make the tabs difficult to tell apart.  Instead the result is:

/usr/b : <prog> , myproject/b : <prog> , myproject/s : <prog> , anotherproject/s : <prog> 

If there are multiple "common names" in a path then they are successively shortened until the first 'uncommon' name is encountered.

There is a hidden config setting, "CommonDirNames" which can be set in .kde/share/config/konsolerc to control which directory names are shortened in this fashion.