KDE5/Konsole and tab-labels

[Reindl Harald]

see attached screenshot

what cool idea to cut the left part when more tabs are open so that you 
see just the domain and the user but no longer the machine name - don't 
get me wrong but what cluttered mind developers appearently have to 
implement such a nonsense

wit the next open tab the hostname completly is cutted

[Kevin Kofler]

Reindl Harald wrote:
>  what cool idea to cut the left part when more tabs are open so that
> you
>  see just the domain and the user but no longer the machine name - don't
>  get me wrong but what cluttered mind developers appearently have to
>  implement such a nonsense 
I guess they had one or both of the following use cases in mind:
* ssh to the same machine as different users (a normal user account, root,
  etc.),
* ssh to several machines at different domains with generic (possibly even
  identical) host names, like shell.example.com, shell.example.org etc.

Of course, in your use case, it's totally counterproductive. :-(

        Kevin Kofler

[Adam Batkin]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 8:01 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at&gt; wrote:
>  Reindl Harald wrote:
> > what cool idea to cut the left part when more tabs are open so that you
> > see just the domain and the user but no longer the machine name - don't
> > get me wrong but what cluttered mind developers appearently have to
> > implement such a nonsense
>
>  I guess they had one or both of the following use cases in mind:
>  * ssh to the same machine as different users (a normal user account, root,
>    etc.),
>  * ssh to several machines at different domains with generic (possibly even
>    identical) host names, like shell.example.com, shell.example.org etc.
>
>  Of course, in your use case, it's totally counterproductive. :-( 
Another possibility is that no one really thought about it before and
that's how the widget truncates text by default.

I would suggest a trip over to the Konsole mailing list and/or send in
a patch. In my (albeit limited) experience, they are pretty receptive.

Personal anecdote: When I highlight text in my konsole, I want it to
go to the clipboard. When I paste (either middle click or
shift+insert) I want to paste from the clipboard. So I submitted a
patch to implement this possibility as a configuration option. I was
pleasantly surprised at how easy the process was (I'm not a C++ guru,
but it didn't take long to figure out exactly what to do). There were
problems with how I implemented some things, but they must have liked
the idea because within maybe a day, one of the maintainers had
rewritten my patch to better conform with what they needed and merged
it. And to this day there is a "Copy on select" and "paste from
clipboard" option in the Profile Settings.

Moral of the story: it never hurts to ask (politely).

-Adam Batkin

[Markus Schönhaber]

Am 16.10.2015 um 12:23 schrieb Reindl Harald:
>  see attached screenshot
>  
>  what cool idea to cut the left part when more tabs are open so that you 
>  see just the domain and the user but no longer the machine name - don't 
>  get me wrong but what cluttered mind developers appearently have to 
>  implement such a nonsense
>  
>  wit the next open tab the hostname completly is cutted 
Maybe you can slightly ease the pain by switching user and hostname in
the profile's tab label settings.

-- 
Regards
  mks

[Reindl Harald]

Am 19.10.2015 um 11:53 schrieb Markus Schönhaber:
>  Am 16.10.2015 um 12:23 schrieb Reindl Harald:
> > see attached screenshot
> >
> > what cool idea to cut the left part when more tabs are open so that you
> > see just the domain and the user but no longer the machine name - don't
> > get me wrong but what cluttered mind developers appearently have to
> > implement such a nonsense
> >
> > wit the next open tab the hostname completly is cutted
>
>  Maybe you can slightly ease the pain by switching user and hostname in
>  the profile's tab label settings. 
it makes it only a little bit better becaus the username is cutted first 
but it don't change the idioticy to start cutting on the left side while 
any other software in that uinverse cuts long strings athe the right end