[Konsole-devel] [Bug 162319] Ability to search scrollback in KPart as in Konsole

[Jekyll Wu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162319

Jekyll Wu <adaptee at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Jekyll Wu <adaptee at gmail.com> ---
So, this searching ability turns out to be most wanted feature of konsolepart
:)

It is not hard to enable that ability in konsolepart. However, enabling it
might introduce some problems for hosting applications(kate,dolphin,yakuake,
etc).

The first problem is shortcut conflicting. Currently konsolepart always use its
hardcoded shortcuts(see bug 196482). Enabling the searching ability will
introduce three shortcuts: Ctrl+Shift+F for showing the search bar, F3 for next
and Shift+F3 for previous. In hosting applications, F3 and Shift+F3 are
commonly used for searching, while Ctrl+Shift+F is commonly used for "Full
Screen Mode".

The second problem is visual inconsistency. This is mainly about yakuake, which
has its own tabbar, skin and split system. The search bar looks odd in yakuake. 

So if this feature is added later, I'm inclined to make it accessible only
through context menu, no shortcut available.

For those who are interested with this ability, you can fetch the experimental
code from https://github.com/adaptee/konsole/tree/kpart-searchbar , play with
it and leave your feedback here. 
Note, Qt 4.8 is needed to compile it. And be prepared it might crash your
hosting applications.

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