https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407879
Bug ID: 407879 Summary: [KDE Konsole 19.04.1 - strange behaviour] "New Tab ->" shows a total listing of ... one entry, which must be selected Product: konsole Version: 19.04.1 Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: REPORTED Severity: normal Priority: NOR Component: tabbar Assignee: konsole-de...@kde.org Reporter: sheve...@gmail.com Target Milestone: --- Linux OS here, KDE konsole compiled from source, version 19.04.1 All works sorta ok ... I have defined a custom profile for my preferred KDE konsole. Now the strange thing is - if I click on: File -> New Tab then the name of that single profile appears. I then have to select that profile with the mouse cursor/pointer, in order to open a new tab. What confuses me here is ... if the total selection is one (1), then what is the point of me having to select on that single entry? I mean if I already can not do any selection with the mouse, then why does KDE konsole show me that one selection that I then have to click? That makes no sense to me. Surely anyone thinking about this may come to the same conclusion - what is the exercise here for the user, shall the user train how to select a single entry in this dropdown-widget? It may be that something was buggy or so; I think I had more than one profile before, but since I only ever need a single profile, I always remove all but one profiles. (Might be that a default profile keeps on re-appearing but I personally really only want one profile and consider more than one profile confusing and an antifeature for me personally). Anyway. My suggestion is quite simple: - Only show a DROP DOWN when there are AT THE LEAST TWO possibilities to choose from. Personally I actually don't need this at all, since I only want a single profile; but a more elegant solution could be to mark this as an auto-pick solution or something, or some setting (but I would recommend no setting here, as this may keep it simpler; I am just providing alternatives to the current forced manual selection) Right now I only have a single entry to choose from, and it is a bit pointless to have to click on this single entry - I can not even click on anything else there, so why is that even appearing at all ... it means I have to make an additional step. I can not say whether this is new or not, largely because I actually dont even want to have any of this. ;) (Normally I open tabs via the keyboard anyway but sometimes I use to mouse to focus back on KDE konsole from my browser, so this is where I may then use the mouse instead.) I selected tabbar but I am not sure if this is the right name - I refer to the tab bar on the top menu widget e. g. where you can open a new tab. If someone considers this to be a feature, I would be curious about the explanation for when there is only a single entry (I understand it when there are more entries, but not when there is a single entry; although even when there are multiple entries, I actually think it is cumbersome to want to select another entry IF the user defaults to a specific variant already). IF a setting is considered then I would recommend to default to "ignore the case when there are fewer than two possibilities/entries". This might solve the issue altogether while still allowing for flexibility - not sure if anyone uses this option, but better be safe than sorry in the event that others may depend on it, even if I consider it overall to be not too terribly useful. Thanks for reading. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.