I love the way that Dolphin can now be set up so that it has a console at the bottom that follows the directories as you browse. I often browse somewhere and then do command line commands and then do something with a GUI and then... back and forth. Its an excellent way to work. Whoever thought of tying Dophin and a console together deserves a medal.
However, I find one part of it to be annoying... whenever you change a directory in Dolphin, it records a cd command in the console history.
I really like how the console tracks the directory changes that occur in Dolphin. It saves me a lot of time, not having to issue cds in the console to keep it in the directory that I am looking at in Dolphin.
However, it might be me, but I don't want to see the Dolphin cds in the console history. The only commands that I want to see in the console history are the ones that I enter myself manually. If I want to note what directory I am working in in the console history, I'll issue a pwd command.
I think it would be really nice if there was a turn off the logging of Dolphin cds in the console history. Is there a way to do this ?
Another issue is how there is only one console tied to the Dolphin app and yet Dolphin can have a split screen with 2 different directory views. Unfortunately, every time you jump between views another cd gets issued in the console.
It would be nice if a split view Dolphin session had 2 consoles. It would be really nice if those sessions shared the same history so that if you typed a command in one, you could just put the cursor in the other console, go into the history and repeat the same command in the other console.
I love open source and Fedora and KDE.
Thanks for listening.
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 17:00:59 Linuxguy123 wrote:
It would be nice if a split view Dolphin session had 2 consoles. It would be really nice if those sessions shared the same history so that if you typed a command in one, you could just put the cursor in the other console, go into the history and repeat the same command in the other console.
Have you considered filing a RFE for this? It sounds like an enhancement that quite a few folk would enjoy.
Anne
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 19:45 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 17:00:59 Linuxguy123 wrote:
It would be nice if a split view Dolphin session had 2 consoles. It would be really nice if those sessions shared the same history so that if you typed a command in one, you could just put the cursor in the other console, go into the history and repeat the same command in the other console.
Have you considered filing a RFE for this? It sounds like an enhancement that quite a few folk would enjoy.
I am interested to hear what others think of my suggestion. I find a console attached to Dolphin incredibly useful. In the past I usually had separate browser and console apps. Linking them makes things so much nicer.
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:00 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
However, it might be me, but I don't want to see the Dolphin cds in the console history. The only commands that I want to see in the console history are the ones that I enter myself manually. If I want to note what directory I am working in in the console history, I'll issue a pwd command.
The console is just running a Shell, so there may be a way to approximate what you want -- such as ignoring "cd" commands -- using HISTCONTROL and HISTIGNORE environment variables (see bash(1)). However these would apply to all your Shell sessions and AFAIK there's no way to distinguish between manually and programatically entered input.
poc
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:58 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:00 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote:
However, it might be me, but I don't want to see the Dolphin cds in the console history. The only commands that I want to see in the console history are the ones that I enter myself manually. If I want to note what directory I am working in in the console history, I'll issue a pwd command.
The console is just running a Shell, so there may be a way to approximate what you want -- such as ignoring "cd" commands -- using HISTCONTROL and HISTIGNORE environment variables (see bash(1)). However these would apply to all your Shell sessions and AFAIK there's no way to distinguish between manually and programatically entered input.
One way to handle this might be to "open" a new console (transparently) in a different directory every time that Dolphin does a dir change. That way a cd is never issued in the console.
Another way would be to add a switch to cd/bash such that it doesn't log in history.
Another way would be to add a sync checkbox to top of the console pane such that one could surf around in Dolphin and then check sync at which time console would cd to where Dolphin is and cd whenever Dolphin does. One could then unsync whenever one wanted to keep the console in one place and Dolphin in another. This would be a really nice enhancement too, especially if Dolphin stored the state of the sync setting in between sessions. Ie start unsynced for general browsing and then let the use sync up when s/he wants.
So many ways to make this super application even more versatile.
LG
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