[Konsole-devel] [Bug 309249] New: konsole should add a "--separate" option for starting a new process

[Jekyll Wu]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309249

            Bug ID: 309249
          Severity: wishlist
           Version: 2.9.2
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
           Summary: konsole should add a "--separate" option for starting
                    a new process
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: adaptee at gmail.com
          Hardware: Other
            Status: NEW
         Component: single-process
           Product: konsole

Konsole uses class KUniqureApplication ever since KDE4. That decision means at
least two features:

    1. All konsole instances started through krunner/menu/hotkey runs in the
same process
    2. konsole instance started from one existing emulator/shell will run in
its own process, but runs in the background(more precisely, detached from the
existing emulator/shell).

That two features are sometimes annoying to users, and they need some way to
suppress that two features and make konsole behave in a more traditional way:
each instance runs in its own process, and runs in the foreground. 

At the moment, the "--nofork" option (provided by KUniqureApplication) is used
for both purposes. I think using "--nofork" to suppress feature 1 is not a good
idea, because :

    1. That is kind of abuse. That "--nofork" option is actually intended for
suppressing feature 2.
    2. Its name is not easy to understand, and the option is hard to find
(buried in the output of --help-kde).

So I propose adding a new "--separate" option dedicated for suppressing feature
1. That doesn't means "--nofork" will not suppress feature 1 any more. It is
just that we should recommend using "--separeate" for that purpose.

Note, the "--separeate" option is inspired by roxterm. Actually, I remember
some user asked for that option in the #kde channel. 


Reproducible: Always

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