[konsole] [Bug 476987] New: "New" button in Manage Profiles user flow unclear

[John Veness]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476987

            Bug ID: 476987
           Summary: "New" button in Manage Profiles user flow unclear
    Classification: Applications
           Product: konsole
           Version: 23.08.3
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: konsole-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: john.kde at pelago.org.uk
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
Currently it is not clear to the user exactly what happens when you click the
New button in the Manage Profiles window (also available in Settings, Configure
Konsole, Profiles tab). With some experimenting, it seems that this actually
creates a copy of the currently highlighted profile (so if Root Shell is
highlighted, New will create a new profile with "su -" as the command), but
this is non-obvious.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Menu, Settings, Manage Profiles
2. Click on an existing profile
3. Click New

OBSERVED RESULT
The new profile is a copy/duplicate of the highlighted one.

EXPECTED RESULT
The new profile is a "clean" new profile. (Although see Additional Information
below).

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20231110
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.9
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.111.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.6.1-1-default (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: HP ProBook 450 G4

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Although I have said that the user expectation is that the New button would
create a "clean" empty profile, as it happens, the functionality to copy an
existing profile is very useful. And indeed, what would a "clean" profile be,
if not a copy of the Built-in profile?

My issue is not so much the functionality of copying/duplicating profiles, but
the fact that this is not made clear to the user.

Maybe the New button could be renamed "Copy" or "Duplicate" or "Edit as new"?
Or kept as New but when pressed an interstitial dialogue appears that says
something like "Create a new profile based on the selected 'Built-in' profile?"
(or whichever profile was selected at the time New was pressed)? Maybe the
button should be greyed-out unless the user actively clicks on an existing
profile.

Whatever user flow is decided upon, I think it needs to be clearer to the user
than the current "hidden" copy/duplicate functionality. Thanks!

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