KDE konsole 3.5 to 4.1 migration tips
As promised, I now try to provide what's necessary to happily migrate from KDE 3.5 konsole to KDE 4.1 konsole.
Unfortunately, when using konsole as tabbed multi-server ssh terminal, one will have to wait for at lease KDE 4.2, which might provide session management that might be a replacement for KDE3' konsoles. See KDE Bug #152761 for the discussion.
Trying to clarify terms
Unfortunately, in trying to clarify things, KDE 4's konsole only mixed them through once again, but I am beginning to understand it:
konsole in KDE 3.5 | konsole in KDE 4.1 |
|---|---|
| bookmark (to a directory) | bookmark (with an URL like file:///home/jdoe/foo) |
| ssh session (new tab with ssh command executed) | bookmark |
| other session (new tab with some command executed) | profile (with the command) |
| profile (konsole window with certain set of tabs) | bookmark folder ("open in tabs") (does not work for ssh: bookmarks or commands!) |
| configuration (menu "settings" / "configure konsole") (contains colors, sessions, ...) | profiles (configuration sets, each with a command, colors, behaviour) |
Missing -ls option
In your profile(s), i.e. "Settings" / "Edit current profile" / tab "General" / field "Command", just append a space and -l to the shell command.
Converting old session entries to new something
No solution yet. I will wait what konsole from KDE 4.2 will provide. If a conversion script seems useful, I am gonna write and publish it.
Replacement for "Send input to all sessions"
"Edit" / "Copy input to ..." is one click more of an effort, but in fact more flexible and a better protection agains weird things happening due to different command line editing modes.
Yes, you can't distribute e.g. keys like escape, control, alt, ..., but after all I assume that's a good thing.
Let's hope we have or get a long command history available.
My solution: Old konsole under KDE 4
For now I am staying with the konsole from KDE 3.5. Fortunately, konsole seems to be quite independend and Ubuntu 8.04's konsole-4:3.5*.deb works under 8.10 beta1.
Keeping track
As things develop, I am gonna update this very posting, so feel free to bookmark or refer to the [perm link].
From: IBCL BLog.
Originally posted: 2008-10-07