Plasma 5 - Right Click Desktop - Konsole?

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sat, 2 May 2015 11:16:24 +0100
Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 May 2015 at 15:58, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tend to have exclusively one konsole and one firefox window
> > opened at a time (on their respective desktops), and extensively
> > use multiple tabs. This avoids over-cluttering the desktops (in my
> > case, remaining six desktops can then be used for various other
> > apps, one per desktop), and I always know where to look for various
> > stuff... ;-) Btw, given the multiple tabs functionality, I always
> > fail to see the reason for having multiple window instances of the
> > same app (like firefox or konsole).
> 
> Well, since you said you were interested, any circumstance where you
> need to see information from two pages/tabs at once. Or if researching
> something you may have a window open with multiple tabs open for that,
> with another window that you're working in. I'll typically start a
> task and if it gets big send it to its own desktop, which may be a few
> konsole windows and any other programs that are relevant (browser,
> spreadsheet etc.). In the case of browsers, some sites or applications
> will use their own sub-windows, e.g. I listen to BBC iplayer radio,
> this really wants its own window sized to their interface, and it's
> easier to let it do that rather than open in a tab (so it can be
> minimised without cluttering up tabs I actually want to look at).

I see. I usually consider firefox as a mostly-read-only app, so I never
came across a usecase where I would want two web pages displayed
simultaneously on the same screen. But I do understand this point in
the case of konsole --- typing in one window while reading a man page
in another is probably a sensible scenario.

Btw, I also listen to streaming radio (not BBC though), but for me it
is more convenient to open it in a tab. I guess it depends on how the
web page of the player is made... ;-)

Thanks to everyone for the info!

Best, :-)
Marko