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  Konsole Usage Survey
Applications Posted by Liquidat on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @11:43
from the i-command-you dept.
Robert Knight, lead maintainer of Konsole has launched a Konsole Usage Survey. 28 questions are waiting for your answers. Use this chance to give useful feedback about a vital and often-used base application of KDE to enable Robert to make Konsole the best console application for KDE 4.


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Thanks Robert!
by Vlad on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @13:16
Thank you Robert for working on improving Konsole even more! I first heard of the survey while reading PlanetKDE and have already completed it :)

Vlad
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oops
by Kingsley on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @13:50
I didn't mean to quote the guy above me.
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Impressive!
by Wackou on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @14:00
AFAIC, Konsole is already the best terminal app I've ever used, so congratulations on this one.

It is for me KDE's killer app (even more so than Konqueror & all the others).

I find it very nice though to have this survey to improve it even more, even though I don't understand how you can make a better-than-perfect app! ;-)
Thanks for your efforts on this!

Wackou.
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konsole?
by KDE Troll on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @14:43
So where is this Konsole anyway? I can't find the icon anywhere on my desktop toolbar. :(
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the best feature is :
by lukilak@we on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @15:06
taaadaaaa : type in multiple tabs simultaniously, perfect for updating multiple machines at once :-)
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Show Terminal Emulator
by Paul Leopardi on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @15:12
In the survey, I asked about "Show Terminal Emulator" in Konqueror. I'm worried that KDE 4 will lose this feature, which I use more often than Konsole. Kate has "Show Terminal" hidden in its menus, and I use this very often as well. I also suggested that "Show Terminal Emulator" be added as a button on all KDE windows.
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I don't use Konsole
by Cypher on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @17:29
I much prefer Yakuake with it's docking ability. When I really need an independant console, I use urxvt because it's lightweight compared to Konsole. And at least, the fake transparency works with this one, and I can get a completely transparent window, no grey widgets everywhere. I've never managed to get the fake transparency working since KDE 3.4. When I choose a transparent theme, it gets completely black or white (I use Kubuntu).
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Konsole Rules!
by Shelton on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @20:00
one of the first apps that I always have open is Konsole - its simply powerful!!
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Clickable URLs?
by Jason Stubbs on Monday 19/Mar/2007, @20:46
I'm hoping that there is some config option for this that I've just missed, but I think parsing and making URL-like text clickable would be a great addition. Manually selecting the URL and using Klipper's popup to open is not too much hassle but is not exactly easy either... Hmm.. Wondering about word-based selection (rather than character-based selection) I just found that double clicking on a URL will select it. With my setting of Klipper to "ignore selections", I still need to manually copy it though...
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Konsole is really nice
by anonymous on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @00:25
But I prefer urxvt with screen.

urxvt starts _really_ fast. And it does have real transparency too ;)
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Germinglish
by Flow on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @03:04
When I fill out the survey, there is a language-mix (German, English). Is this testing my intelligence ;) ?
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Konsole is the best!
by toth on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @04:36
I have to administer a lot of unix/linux systems daily. Konsole is very suitable for this task and simply the best console program what I've ever seen. Keep up the good work!
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Yakuake
by Thomas Jansson on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @05:37
I use yakuake and that is the killer app for me in KDE. I uses konsoles settings and I guess inherits Konsoles features. Love it! :D
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The way to go!
by olahaye74 on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @06:45
Realy professional way to do things! When I saw this survey, I' filled it immediately!

Realy great application and great way to recieve feedback from people around the world.

Far better initiative than doing "koffeshop" surveys! ;-)

Olivier.
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Ouch!
by Gr8teful-1 on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @07:45
Hi, I already answered the survey and concluded I didn't quite profit from all Konsole features. On a second thought, something can be done about it and thus I'm here to suggest it.

Why I don't use tabs? Because they don't call my attention! Make them stand out, make them easy to create -- maybe another toolbar with session icons would help, who knows? Maybe special mouse usage like clicking on an empty place on the tab-bar would lead to some action...

In other words, make Konsole more like Konqueror and/or other browsers, i.e., maybe (customizable) icons suck less than menu/submenu/subsubmenu options...

Also, you can further integrate Konsole and Konqueror. Instead of just Konqueror starting Konsole, there could be a session with a Konqueror-file manager embedded, e.g., for easier file selection/visualization... plus, if one could view two sessions at once it would be possible to drag visual objects to the command-line for further use (much like pasting from Windows Explorer to a DOS window...)

Anyway, thanks (really), keep up the good work and I also wish you continued success!

Gr8teful

PS: Just my personal opinions above, not someone else's.
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Contextual help
by cmiramon on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @09:26
A nice feature in Konsole would be to have the possibility to have a dynamic contextual help window next to the Konsole.

When I type 'ls' in my Konsole, all the different options for 'ls' would appear magically in the contextual help window. Something like 'man' on steroids. Long time ago, there was something similar on Dos but more crude calledn if I remember right ni, one of the first Norton programs
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My thoughts
by Artem S. Tashkinov on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @09:30
Please enter any other comments you have about changing Konsole settings ( including creating new color schemes or sessions ).

I would like only these setting to be changed:
* default tabs position: up
* don't hide the tabs bar if the only tab is shown
* default colour scheme: Linux colors
* default and _supplied_ with kdebase font: Terminus and Andale Mono

Please enter any other comments you have about Konsole which you would like the developers to read.

* I'm missing much such Gnome console functionality: You can scroll back the history and then copy paste some contents without falling back to the active screen. Right now if you paste something from behind the screen then Konsole will force you back to the main screen.
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Real transparency
by lqtys on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @10:13
Please, work on real transparency support. Fake transparency is _slow_

I'm currently using a patched Konsole with Beryl support that does real transparency and it is FAST :)
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Opportunity
by David on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @12:35
Thanks for the opportunity of saying that I don't use the console at all, and I would be happy if it were removed from KDE.

I have missed the question: "how much do you hate typing commands?"

I hope you can include it the next time.

Many thanks.
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Of course konsole!
by shevegen on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @15:56
Konsole is by far my favourite application of KDE. :)

I use it basically to do everything (until i have to start sth like
openoffice or gimp or similar, but i start everything from a konsole tab)

Personally I love konsole, but if things could be made possible:

- I would like something like quadkonsole BUT in a konsole tab.

I heard this would maybe be possible in KDE4 so I hope that it
might become true (I'd use one tab to have a htop on the left
pane and use the right pane to kill modify etc.. running processes)
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Win32 Konsole Running The Windows Power Shell
by Manuel on Tuesday 20/Mar/2007, @23:59
Anybody else dreaming of a native win32 konsole running the windows power shell as well as cygwin based shells?
This would make my life easier...
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Thanks!
by nin on Friday 23/Mar/2007, @17:04
Thanks to all the people who have developed Konsole (and Kvt) over the time.

My desktop consists of a fullscreen Konsole window on the foreground most of the time, and in the background Amarok, Kmail, Konqueror and possibly other Konsole window on another virtual desktop wich I may be using for some different work.

I've prefered Konsole over xterm since KDE 2 (tabs). Now it's really nice to have a konsole window on a virtual desktop where you run networked uml instances, set tab titles and rearrange tabs according to current needs with just some quick keystrokes. Konsole was a central part of my "network lab" on a previous job.

And now I have konsole starting fullscreen on login to KDE on my home computer, because I know it will be the window I will be mostly using :)

And all that even when having the wonderful KDE minicli (ALT+F2) handy.


So: Thanks, thanks, thanks.


P.S. You know you use Konsole too much when you press Alt+UpArrow to scroll up one line on the linux console every time you use it.
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