[Konsole-devel] Review Request: Added "Copy To All Tabs" feature for konsole

[Thomas Dreibholz]

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(Updated 2009-07-21 20:18:59.144325)


Review request for Konsole.


Changes
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In order to improve user-friendliness of the "Copy Input To..." option, the three menu items ("All Tabs in Current Window", "Select Tabs..." and "None") are now checkable. The checkmark shows which one of the three states is currently active.


Summary
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konsole in KDE <4.0 had the really convenient feature to send input to all tabs of the same konsole window. KDE 4.x's konsole lacks of this feature. Instead, the "Copy Input To" feature requires to select sessions. Unfortunately, the sessions are not hierachically sorted. So, if opening many sessions (many tabs in many konsole windows) -- e.g. I usually have about 20 to 40 tabs in different windows on 8 screens open -- it is very time-consuming and annoying to find and select/deselect the right session in the "Copy Input To" dialog. On an old KDE 3.5 system, it has been possible to activate/deactivate copying to all tabs of the current window with a single keyboard shortcut. This has been very convenient when managing a pool of PCs by having one konsole window for the pool, with a tab for each SSH connection to one of the PCs. The lack of this KDE 3 feature has prevented me from upgrading my systems to KDE 4.x yet. In order to overcome this problem, the attached patch adds a "Copy To All Tabs" feature to konsole. It works as follows:
- If "Copy To All Tabs" is activated, "Copy Input To" settings are deactivated and the input is forwarded to all sessions in the same window.
- If "Copy To All Tabs" is deactivated, the input only goes into the current session.
- If "Copy Input To" is used when "Copy To All Tabs" is activated, the currently activated sessions are used for the "Copy Input To" dialog which allows for modifying the settings. "Copy To All Tabs" is deactivated then; the settings of "Copy Input To" are used instead.


This addresses bug 168292.
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168292


Diffs (updated)
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  /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/desktop/sessionui.rc 999946 
  /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/SessionController.h 1000674 
  /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/SessionController.cpp 1000674 
  /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/main.cpp 1000674 

Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1056/diff


Testing
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Compiles against SVN trunk. Tested with SVN revision 998988.


Thanks,

Thomas