Of all of the changes from KDE 3 to KDE 4 the handling of the titlebars in Konsole is one of the most annoying.

I would like (in ALL tabs) just a simple session number, host, and maybe user, but it seems that can't be done any more.

1. The local and remote hosts (in the Tabs / Tab Titles configuration) won't accept the same options (Why? Didn't anyone ever imagine that users might want them the same?). Trying to put the code for the host (%h) in a local window just displays "%h" (likewise %d will display the directory on the local computer, but a literal "%d" an a remote computer.

2. If I have the directory on the local computer, and then become root, the directory never updates (it stays forever locked - displaying the directory that I issued the su command from.

3. The text is now right justified instead of left on the tabs (an idiocy, in my opinion). I want to see the session number more than anything else, but now I can't if I am in a path with a long name. Is there any way to left justify this? Of course, I can change all kinds of useless settings that I don't care about, but something I really want? NAAAAAH! And for some completely unknown reason, the tabs display only a few characters (cutting off the rest), even with more than half of each tab blank (plenty of room to display more).

4. Referencing the above, it would be nice (at the very least) to mouse over a tab and expand to the complete description (without graphics), but of course, it doesn't expand at all (is there any way to turn that ON?). On the other hand, putting the mouse over the Konsole application in the KDE taskbar (left-justified there - nothing like consistency) brings up a graphical popup, which I DON'T want to see (and apparently, until 4.5, there is no way to turn OFF), because it doesn't add anything to what is already displayed.

5. If I recall, the tab sizes in KDE 3.5 adjusted (at least somewhat) dynamically. Another useful behavior removed.

Will we get any relief here soon, or will I continue to absolutely hate this until the end of time?

Please see http://imagebin.ca/view/sQzkmF-0.html and http://imagebin.ca/view/8bKMpvG.html

Both 1) and 2) are likely unimplementable due to the following:

Konsole is not running as root itself nor is it able to run on the remote system, and therefore does not have sufficient capability to monitor the /proc/<pid>/cwd symlink of the root / remote user's shell process. Not to mention it is not able to get the process id of the spawned shell in either the root or remote user cases.

However, for "%h" this is likely implementable for local systems. You may wish to file a feature request at bugs.kde.org

With regards to 3) I confirm on trunk. However, I wonder where one runs into such long directory names. In any case, file a bug report at bugs.kde.org.

For 4) this functionality is unimplemented ( for the tooltips in Konsole feature ). Please file a feature request at bugs.kde.org

For 5) see my screenshots. The tab size is automatically adjusted as the window shrinks until a minimum size is reached. If you are having issues with not being able to resize them yourself, you need to file a feature request at bugs.kde.org.