Bug 4934

Summary:	Make konsole work with KDE 4 for OE_TERMINAL
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Laszlo Papp <lpapp>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Paul Eggleton <bluelightning>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Low	CC:	bluelightning, kergoth, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher, poky.bs.watcher, poky.watcher, sgw
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.8 M3
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Yes (doc changes required)

Description Laszlo Papp 2013-07-28 10:57:57 UTC

From the reference guide:

"Note
Konsole support only works for KDE 3.x. Also, "auto" is the default behavior for OE_TERMINAL"

If it is already working, then the documentation has to be updated. I will leave it with you how to process.

Comment 1 Paul Eggleton 2013-07-28 11:05:26 UTC

When I last investigated this, it was not possible because there was no way to launch a single instance of Konsole (regardless of the presence of existing instances) and wait for it to terminate. I even looked at fixing Konsole to allow this, however it seemed to me that the background launching/instance code was integral to the KApplication class and there was no means to override it from classes that inherited it. Maybe this has changed in the mean time, I do not know.

Comment 2 Laszlo Papp 2013-08-05 09:35:08 UTC

Is there still anyone using KDE 3?

Comment 3 Paul Eggleton 2013-08-05 09:41:28 UTC

Not sure.

Frankly I'd love it if we could support Konsole in KDE 4 since I use it every day (although I've got used to the integrated screen support, so it doesn't bother me as much as it used to). It just doesn't seem to be very straightforward as I explained above.

Comment 4 Paul Eggleton 2015-02-26 15:12:18 UTC

This has now been fixed in master:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=6d7cf8e9dd00bdff882311fecbadfadc46e9cc03

Comment 5 Laszlo Papp 2015-02-26 15:57:56 UTC

Thanks Paul!