[Konsole-devel] konsole commit 56f3805ac1d5c9b884865dd448c0fa88794b0f54

[Jekyll Wu]

On 2012年03月11日 07:16, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
 > moin,
 >
 > that commit apparently entirely removed the possibility to opt in for a
 > tab bar or menu bar from the command line. what was the reason for the
 > change? the commit message omits this rather non-obvious "detail". do
 > you have a plan for a replacement, like adding separate command line
 > options?
 >
 > regards

Hi:

The rationale is some options do not belong to profiles. They influence 
the whole stand-alone Konsole, instead of only the tabs/sessions create 
based upon that profile. And profile is used by both stand-alone Konsole 
and konsolepart, but some options make no sense for konsolepart. So 
conceptually, some options should be moved out of profile and be global 
and Konsole-only. Additionally, those options caused some very ugly code 
to workaround the fact that they were effectively global although they 
were per-profile options.

You are right that I didn't put detailed explanation in the commit 
message. My fault. I should have put more explanation so that everyone 
can find the intention by browsing git history without following the 
reviewboard or mailing list.

You are also right about the lost possibility. I'm aware of that and 
also have plan of adding command line options like "--hide-menubar" or 
"--hide-tabbar". I'm just not fully convinced they are that useful. 
Could you give an actual use case? I guess you sometimes want to make 
Konsole minimal: No menubar, no tabbar, just like xterm.

Regards
Jekyll