[Konsole-devel] What is the so called "icon name" ?

Jekyll Wu adaptee at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 11:42:54 UTC 2012


Well, my question is inspired by this comment: 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179142#c7

The observation is correct, because the current code only changes the 
Session::_iconText but never actually uses it. It seems that KDE3 
konsoel used it (calling something like 
Konsole::setIconText(_session->iconText())). But I fail to observe any 
effect.

Even when trying the escape sequence "\e]1;icon text\a" in xterm, I fail 
to observe any noticeable effect.

So what is that escape sequence supposed to do?  If the so called "icon 
name" does not make sense in the context of Konsole, I suggest treating 
'IconNameAndWindowTitle', 'IconName', 'WindowTitle' in the same way: 
just change the well known window title. Or, print a warning message 
into stderr telling users that 'IconName' is not supported.

Regards
Jekyll





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