konsole as terminal engine for developer oriented serial port terminal

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Hello

I personally don’t know how to start as I don’t have experience on what you
want to do, but I’m a Konsole dev - I might be able to help with specific
questions.

Best


On Fri, 6 Oct 2023 at 15:39 Jakub Ladman <ladmanj at volny.cz> wrote:

> Dear Konsole developers,
>
> For many decades I'm lacking a good terminal emulator capable of opening
> serial port and enabling manual control of DTR and RTS signals, when
> automatic flow control is disabled.
>
> There are programs with great terminal emulation including konsole,
> putty, mintty, with excellent compatibility with escape sequences,
> unicode, and other awesome qualities.
>
> Then there are few developer terminals with direct handshake signal
> control, such as Bray https://sites.google.com/site/terminalbpp/,
> https://www.compuphase.com/software_termite.htm,
> https://www.hw-group.com/software/hercules-setup-utility, ... mostly for
> windows only, but I have seen and tried a few linux capable also.
>
> All of them are pretty bad in terms of compatibility and responsiveness.
>
> I would like to start new opensource project, which will use qserialport
> Qt component (or a KDE alternative if applicable), few buttons and
> embeded Konsole.
>
> I will be glad for any advice how to start and how to design such an
> application to keep it simple, clean and up-to date with upstream Konsole.
>
> I have slight experience with creating Qt application, I am also more
> than twenty year experienced KDE user, but never wrote KDE style
> application by myself.
>
> I am an hardware engineer rather than professional programmer.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jakub Ladman
>
>
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