KDE 4.9

Again there are a lot of changes in KDE 4.9, some of the new features and fixes are listed below.

• Seperate Konsole settings into their own dialog instead of having everything in the profile settings.
• Add and fix a number of issues dealing with Konsole’s dbus interface.
• Add the ability to search the scrollback in Konsole’s KPart.
• Add support for dragging tab out of Konsole’s window.
• Add support for KDE Web shortcuts in the context menu.
• Add text alerting user that when using unlimited scrollback it will be saved to HD.

• Add a ‘clone’ tab menu option.

• Allow dragging shell out of konsole window. (56749)[b8b8ef7]
• Add dbus call to set the number of lines in history. (120040)[95b8d55]
• Add support for direct 24-bit color specifications in escape sequences. (138740)[35e9cd8]
• Add embedded terminal notifying the host about changes in current working directory. (156919)[675dbcb]
• Add ability to search scrollback in KPart. (162319)[cce19d8]
• Add ability to define separate window and tab title formats. (162326)[4fb4da4]
• When Konsole is mimimized, always show ‘close tabs’ dialog when quitting. (163677)[66c0ddf]
• Konsole should use new process when some Qt/KDE options are given. (179010)[6b811ec]
• Allow the setting of the tab title and window title independently. (179142)[363a270]
• Konsole auto copy selection to clipboard to avoid confusion between shortcuts for pasting from clipboard and selection. (183490)[bb81801]
• Add option to cd into dropped directories. (197867)[c08484f]
• Add more KONSOLE_DBUS_ env variables. (227296)[debfec2]
• Make it possible to obtain the default profile using dbus (252532)[52f6566]
• Add a way to open new identical session in a tab with menu (Shortcut is working fine) (254976)[56acdda]
• Konsole shortcut “Ctrl + Shift + X” for clearing scroll and reset appears as problematic (282593)[dad64e6]
• RFE - Add ability to send commands to Konsole via D-BUS (283719)[ba204b1]
• Support extended mouse coordinates (285984)[b876f2a]
• Removing Konsole menubar but is brought back after reboot (288768]
• New tab shows local terminal instead of remote when running konsole via ssh kio (292518)[56acdda]
• Open close query when logging out with >1 sessions running. (127194)[3309e5b]
• Make it possible to obtain the default profile using dbus (252532)[52f6566]

And then, there’s this:

• Modification of default profile is creating new profile. (250506)[6fa0121]
• Alt key does not open menu, Alt+<key> shortcuts do not work when terminal has focus (154755]
• Not all settings in new profile are applied after the ‘change profile’ action is triggered (171866]
• Konsole does not set initial working directory from cwd (187754)[ebcab3c]
• Disable the advanced feature of “CommonDirNames” for “%d” by default (190281)[5a936ad]
• Don’t expose Konsole actions to hosting application (248469)[08de49d]
• Seperate Konsole settings from profile settings. (250508]
• Selecting text by triple click and scolling up causes only the visible contents to be selected (256353)[6d9d49a]
• Add more ‘What’s this?” text (257914)[eec927b]
• Tab name doesn’t revert immediately after running some commands (271275)[2cf9715]
• newSession() dbus call does not allows to open new session in specified window (276912)[07cddfe]
• Konsole lose paste when clicking middle mouse button quickly and successively (280332)[a123872]
• dbus method org.kde.konsole.Konsole.currentSession always return the active session within the first window, even when the qdbus commnd is executed in some session within the second window. (281513)[07cddfe]
• konsolerc: usage of full path for some config values is not portable between accounts (283102)[2663d9c]
• [PATCH] “konsole –nofork” crashes when started not from terminal (288200)[595ccda]
• Konsole dbus sessions count is broken (292309)[07cddfe]
• Profile setting “Show in Menu” not saved (292637)[0bd1927]
• Konsole should migrate user’s tab settins from the profile to the global settings (293231)[f542899]
• Command “ konsole -e ‘man ls’ “ does not work, while “konsole -e man ls” works fine (295648)[aa75fc8]
• konsole does not always honor ‘–display’ (297801)[6b811ec]
• Alt key does not open menu, Alt+<key> shortcuts do not work when terminal has focus (154755]
• Not all settings in new profile are applied after the ‘change profile’ action is triggered (171866]
• Selecting text by triple click and scolling up causes only the visible contents to be selected (256353)[6d9d49a]
• Tab name doesn’t revert immediately after running some commands (271275)[2cf9715]
• dbus method org.kde.konsole.Konsole.currentSession always return the active session within the first window, even when the qdbus commnd is executed in some session within the second window. (281513)[07cddfe]
• konsolerc: usage of full path for some config values is not portable between accounts (283102)[2663d9c]
• [PATCH] “konsole –nofork” crashes when started not from terminal (288200)[595ccda]
• Konsole dbus sessions count is broken (292309)[07cddfe]
• Profile setting “Show in Menu” not saved (292637)[0bd1927]
• Konsole should migrate user’s tab settins from the profile to the global settings (293231)[f542899]
• flow control: possible to continue stopped flow without Konsole noticing (293534)[b9a69ec]