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List:       konsole-devel
Subject:    Re: [Konsole-devel] Review Request: Patch for command-line option
From:       "Robert Knight" <robertknight () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-21 14:00:18
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> On 2009-07-21 10:18:38, arno wrote:
> > Why don't use a XML based file? 
> > This would be probably more useful and expandable for future use. For now just a \
> > few tags from a future DTD/Schema would be used, but this may change in future. \
> > We could even share a xml-based file through konsole and other applications, \
> > using konsole's remote interface through DBus.
> 
> Thomas Dreibholz wrote:
> The idea of the --tabs-from-file option is to easily create configurations, e.g. to \
> quickly set up a pool of PCs to establish ssh connections to. It is intended that \
> the user manually edits this configuration file by text editor. The usage of XML \
> would make this much more complicated for the user. 
> However, I also see that XML would make much more powerful things possible. May be, \
> powerful XML-based configurations could be added by further options in addition to \
> the simple text form. 
> arno wrote:
> I do use konsole in the very same purpose, that is for managing lots of shells \
> (well, currently not anymore since konsole 2 in KDE 4, but that's going to change). \
> I think, providing a scheme validator everybody should also be able to write his \
> own xml files. I did use a xml based file for my own project [1] and I think, it \
> would be great when we could share one configuration file for such things and \
> konsole itself. It's not, that I would insist on my XML format, I just would like \
> to see a more expandable interoperability here.  
> 
> [1] http://burnachurch.com/82/ksshmenu-a-graphical-ssh-manager-for-kde/

I'm not so sure about the idea of an XML format.  It would be more flexible - but it \
would also be more difficult to read and write by hand, which I imagine is how these \
files are going to be created.

I would stick with the plain text format for now.


- Robert


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On 2009-07-21 09:55:49, Thomas Dreibholz wrote:
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> (Updated 2009-07-21 09:55:49)
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> 
> Review request for Konsole.
> 
> 
> Summary
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> 
> The attached patch introduces the new command line option "-tabsfromfile \
> <filename>" to konsole. On startup, konsole reads the file which contains one line \
> for each tab to be created. Syntax is "<tab title>: <command> <args> ..."; comment \
> lines start with '#'. This new option can e.g. be used to conveniently open ssh \
> connections to a pool of PCs; with one tab for each PC. Such a configuration file \
> could look like this: # SSH sessions to all Network Testbed PCs
> Control: ssh -CX user@control.my-domain.org
> West:    ssh -CX user@west.my-domain.org
> North:   ssh -CX user@north.my-domain.org
> South:   ssh -CX user@south.my-domain.org
> East:    ssh -CX user@east.my-domain.org
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
> /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/Application.h 999292 
> /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/Application.cpp 999292 
> /trunk/KDE/kdebase/apps/konsole/src/main.cpp 999292 
> 
> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1079/diff
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> Tested with SVN revision 999263.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 

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