Re: [Konsole-devel] Review Request: Patch for command-line option to read tab titles and tab commands from file

> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> West:    ssh -CX user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> North:   ssh -CX user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> South:   ssh -CX user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> East:    ssh -CX user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> 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 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1079/diff
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> 
> Testing
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> Tested with SVN revision 999263.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas
> 
>

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