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[Konsole2.Requirements]
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The current state of konsole asks for a redesign.
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While lower level material, especially the emulation
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comes out to be very stable over the years, the upper
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level level shifts because of new uses and fulfilled
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wishes.
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These cannot be implemented by evolutionary modification
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but require complete redesign/rewrites.
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This file is to collect requirements and ideas for this.
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- Here are some candidates -----------------------------
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- proper partification
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While konsole became a proper platform for terminal
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oriented working, fine integration with the desktop
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did not happen yet.
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- connection/disconnect session to/from individual windows
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- gui style configuration for $TDEDIR/share/apps/konsole/*
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- improved history algorithm
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Current history algorithm does not allow to limit the
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histories size. Also, it descreases the speed.
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- improve unicode support
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this is both an ncurses and terminfo issue.
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We may need to provide some help for these packages.
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- tty vs. fullscreen mode solution.
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The visual appearence of the problem is that information
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may get lost when the screen is resized. Likely, lines
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scrolled into the history could be unfolded.
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- systematic solution for the configuration issue.
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Konsole can be configured from many sources.
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Adding or changing configuration items needs
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to be localized.
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The compiled-in defaults should consistently
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be handled like the default.Keytab.
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- Multi session startup
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Having multible sessions in the beginning
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would be a nice option.
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- Event flow and class design.
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The Emulation::setConnect logic has severe flaws.
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The whole class design needs to be revisited in
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light of the session material that came in, too.
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Likely, cut&paste happily flows from the back
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through the chest right into the eye.
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- Improved integration of technical documentation.
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This is a freeware project and so, proper technical
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documentation is even more importent than in a
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commertial environment.
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- A more generic handling of different sorts of emulations.
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This means to fix a long term problem in mc(1) first,
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to allow using terminfo entries other then 'xterm'.
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We could use these then to weed out obsolete material
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and to make konsole having an ECMA compatible emulation
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by default. This would perhaps allow to pull the emulation
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straight again.
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... Check through wishlist and FIXME/Notes/PROJECTS
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- copy of the earlier file PROJECTS --------------------
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The state of konsole is that the lower level mechanics are very
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stable, while the overall program still shifts purpose.
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After a year or two of these shifts the upper levels ask for a
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redesign. This will come out to be konsole2.
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I'll start a Konsole2.requierements instead of this file.
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- current issues -------------------------------------------------
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- add configuration for function keys. (allmost done)
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document broken keypad (It's a QT issue really)
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document VT100 keypad codes (doc/missing.keys)
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* configuration
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- codec selection unfinished.
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- command line options
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font, menu, scrollbar, schema, kdelnk, codec, keytrans, ...
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* improve/complete documentation
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- include README.* into doc.
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- explain configuration files
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* future stuff, perhaps ------------------------------------------
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* stuff centered around resizing and text vs. matrix:
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[This needs a bit explaination]
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- make resizing more clever
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to see the issue, 'ls /dev', make window smaller
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and then larger again.
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- introduce the concept of "logical lines" for resizing and
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cut'n'paste.
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- selecting lines that wrap insert a '\n' in the middle of the
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line when pasting. A related problem occures with resizing.
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* write configuration utility for configuration files.
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(*.schema,*.kdelnk.*.keytab)
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- when manipulating binary files, sometimes one
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screws up ones terminal settings. xterm has
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a convenient 'hard reset' menu choice.
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- keep session open after client program termination.
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Useful for things like 'konsole -e ls'.
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- deflicker, setting all the attributes separately
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both when creating and changing to a session
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creates 3 setimage and 1 paint events. (This may
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have improved, lately).
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