[Konsole-devel] [Bug 234756] wish list - konsole tabs function like firefox for new & close tab

[Jekyll Wu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234756


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--- Comment #2 from Jekyll Wu <adaptee gmail com>  2011-08-29 13:38:32 ---
I have some different idea about the close button.

There is a important difference between webpages and terminal processes: most
webpages are stateless, while terminal processes are not. Closing a tab in
firefox accidentally is generally not a big deal, because that closed webpage
can be reopened easily without loss . Closing a tab in konsole accidentally
often causes damage to the users: interrupted compilation, interrupted mv
command, interrupted tar command, etc

AFAIK, it has be requested several times to allow users to close tab by
middle-clicking the tab , but is always refused. And there is a feature
request(#126930) for locking the input of tab so that it won't be closed in
accident. So I think the general idea is to make it harder to accidentally
close a tab, not the opposite. 

Personally, I think there is already too many ways to close a tab: Ctrl+D for a
shell, keyboard shortcut(Ctrl+Shift+Q), context menu of the terminal area,
context menu of the tab, and the current close button. And even Alt+F4 can be
used to close a tab, if user would like that.

By the way, gnome-terminal provides the close button on the tab, but there has
been a request[1] to remove that close button for a long time.

[1] - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335453

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