Re: [tlug] Desktop Wars Query

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 27/06/07, Al Hoang <hoanga@example.com> wrote:

> Having said that, I
> think when it comes to crawling in the terminal it still doesn't match
> konsole for a few reasons.
> 1. Tab renaming in konsole seems easier to handle (at least for me).
>    I rename my tabs based on purpose of the terminal to make it easier
>    to determine at a glance what this terminal is for

Hrm, I use my bashrc for this:

http://www.jmglov.net/unix/bash.html

Specifically:


# xterm title settings
case $TERM in

 xterm*|rxvt|Eterm|eterm)

   PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@example.com: ${PWD}\007"'
   export PROMPT_COMMAND
   ;;

 screen)

   PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne
"\033_${USER}@example.com:${PWD/$HOME/~}\033\\"'
   export PROMPT_COMMAND
   ;;

esac


> 2. The Shift-alt-<arrow> feature for being able to shuffle around tabs
>    is awesome.  gnome-terminal does not have this feature

You do know about Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDown, right? How is the
Shift-Alt-<arrow> feature different?

> 3. Tab-switching actually cycles rather than stop when you hit the
>    left or right edges.  I absolutely hate this stupidity in metacity
>    windows manager and gnome-terminal.

Yeah, and I wish Ctrl-Tab worked in gnome-terminal like in Firefox.
Maybe I'll fix that when I get a slice of free time.

> 4. Far more configurable shortcuts in case you absolutey despise the
>    defaults.   I've remapped some of mine to make my life simpler

Yeah, this is a common complaint of mine when it comes to Gnome apps
(which is why I use almost none of them).

> 5. KDE's actual working session management saving means you can get
>    your console's AND tabs AND screen location to come back with
>    minimal fuss.  And it seems konsole will actually remember the
>    directory a particular tab was in when it saves which is nice
>    for remembering where to pick up on something

Nifty!

I'll have to give Konsole a spin. I already have the KDE kitchen sink
due to the sheer awesomeness of Amarok[1], so I don't have to worry
about the 30 minute compile. :)

Cheers,
Josh

[1] http://amarok.kde.org/