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

[Kurt Hindenburg]

On Monday, February 27, 2012, Jekyll Wu wrote:

> Well, my question is inspired by this comment:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.**cgi?id=179142#c7<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.
>
> The only thing I could find so far is someone in #qt that some OSes
separate the icon and text.  I would just leave it as is for now.
  Thanks
Kurt
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