[Konsole-devel] [Bug 170871] Make 'close tab on middle click' an option or disable it completely

[Robert Knight]

> without it there is no easy way to close tabs anymore!

Yes there is - you type 'exit' in the shell or press Ctrl+D, or you
can use the (more brutal) Konsole shortcut to close the current tab
which is Ctrl+Shift+W.  Or you can turn the new tab/close tab buttons
on but the keyboard shortcuts are a much better way to work when you
get in the habit of using them and it gives you more space on the tab
bar - which is why they are off by default.

> If you don't want to clutter the space you could provide close buttons on the tabs which I'd actually prefer

I tried that during KDE 4.1 development - it led to a lot of
complaints from users over accidentally closed tabs.  Unlike a web
browser, current shells don't support any kind of undo facility if you
close a tab by default and the 'state' information (the terminal
output, current directory, SSH connection etc.) is not instantly
recoverable.

Regards,
Robert.

2009/2/23 Tobias <flabbergasted at gmx.de>:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170871
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> --- Comment #22 from Tobias <flabbergasted gmx de>  2009-02-23 19:55:04 ---
> Well, but since you have the whole window to click to paste. it shouldn't be a
> problem to pick a space far enough from the tab bar... otherwise you could also
> close the window by accident when trying to move it because you hit the close
> button :)
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> But whatever, I'm completely ok with this being disabled by default. I'd just
> like to have an option to enable it again, if possible. But I already joined in
> on the discussion at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170004 to make this
> global. So I guess we should just stop here.
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