On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:06 AM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 03:05:57PM -0700, Craig White wrote: > >> konsole really suffered regressions >> >> this used to work real well > > No kidding -- is the fact that resizing one konsole resizes every > subsequent konsole still considered a design feature? This is on > my list for 'dumbest decision ever'. FWIW, by the time I learned > of this 'feature', the KDE developers had already made it clear in > their bugzilla that this was done by design. > > Sure, I appreciate the notion of "use the same resize code as every > other app", except that the usage model of konsole is quite different > from every other app. You don't typically open (and close and open > some more) dozens of instances of other applications in one session > the way many people use konsoles. And please don't mention tabs or > profiles -- tabs only work if you want everything the same size and > can accept limited tiling capabilities, and profiles only work if a) > you know exactly how you'll be using each konsole when you open it > and b) you only want every konsole using a given profile to be the > same size. How can the konsole developers not see this? To me, > this indicates that konsole is being developed by people who either > don't really use it or who use it differently than most everyone else. > > Sorry if this sounds like a rant... > > John > -- > John W. Linville > linville@xxxxxxxxxx Maybe you need a demonstration with several other users that this use case is common. I don't use Konsole like this myself, but it sounds like a fair user of Konsole. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
