[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





--- Comment #5 from Jekyll Wu <adaptee gmail com>  2012-01-23 05:36:50 ---
(In reply to comment #4)

> If for closing a tab so many keyboard options are provided then y not give just
> one simple solution to this (That is one keyboard short cut and another GUI for
> closing). 

Because the close button on each tab is much more likely to be accidentally
triggered than other methods, IMHO. And other methods does not clutter the
interface so much as the close button on each tab does.

> The feature may not be set by default, but it should be provided in settings
> for those who prefer that way.

Yes, it should be configurable and DISABLED by default.


> Anyway if terminal is being closed accidentally we already get a notification
> that  the tab being closed already has some process going on(if it all there is
> any). So I dont think there is any need to worry.

Good point. But that warning does not always work. Konsole give that warning
only when it knows there is some foreground process running. A typical example
is running vim(foreground process) in a zsh session/profile. However:

1). if a user is running a ssh session directly, then there is no way for
konsole
to know whether these is foreground process running on a remote server. So no
warning for accidental closing.

2). if a user is running a normal shell session without any foreground process,
Konsole does not give any warning when closing it. That does not sounds
like a big deal, but once a session is accidentally closed, its valuable
scrollback is lost forever. That is the important difference between
shells and webpages.

Although I personally do not like the idea of close button on each tab, I can
understand the reason behind this request. If someone likes it and plans to
implement it, please do consider my comments and all comments in that bug
report of gnome-terminal before coding. Please make it configurable and
disabled by
default.

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