[konsole] [Bug 384218] clear/^l shouldn't add empty lines to the scrollback buffer

[Egmont Koblinger]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384218

--- Comment #13 from Egmont Koblinger <egmont at gmail.com> ---
>  ubuntu is on 20180127

Not sure where you got this number from. On packages.ubuntu.com, I get 20180210
(older than the "clear" fix) for the ncurses-base and ncurses-term packages of
Cosmic (18.10), and 20181013 (newer than the "clear" fix) for Disco (19.04).

I myself am using Ubuntu Disco and discovered the change in clear's behavior on
this version.

Also,

> It might be a while until distros use 20180804

IMO this is not something that you should evaluate on its own, but in
combination with when they upgrade to a Konsole recent enough to contain your
changes (e.g. how realistic is that a distro will upgrade to Konsole >=
2019-06, but not to terminfo >= 2018-08), also how many users are expected to
upgrade Konsole themselves while having an older terminfo; and whether this
user base should be the one you tailor your software to rather than those
distros that upgrade both software components more or less in parallel.

In other words: out of those users who have konsole >= 2019-06 by whatever
means, how many are likely to have ncurses prior to vs. newer than 2018-08?
Users of konsole < 2019-06 are irrelevant, you can't fix nor break this for
them unless you invent a time machine. :)

Neither behaviors are seriously wrong or critical to worry about. It's a matter
of "okay" vs. "even better" behavior. IMO it's better to target the newer
systems, and their presumably continuously growing user base, rather than some
the transitional state (presumably for not too many people).

But I guess I should stay quiet and let you KDE folks make the call :)

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.