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I previously suggested that the ability to save and load sessions be added to Konqueror. It was pointed out that the feature already exits as View Profiles. Thanks for enlightening me about View Profiles - I feel like such a ... well, idiot boy. BUT, PLEASE READ ON ...

The goal of KDE to have a common look and feel for all applications seems to have broken down here:

A session in Kate can have many files open (each file sort of being a tab).
In Konqueror, a session is called a View Profile and,like Kate, can have multiple URLs open in multiple tabs. "View Profile" confused me since there are also View Modes (Icon, MultiColumn, Detailed List, etc.) I thought a view profile was a way of changing view modes from file browser to web browser.

I searched for "session" in the KDE help docs and found that another favorite, Konsole, also has sessions BUT a session in Konsole is different from a session in Kate. A session in Konsole is one terminal session which is sort of like one tab.

Addionally, sessions and view profiles are accessed differently: In Kate, Sessions is on the tool bar, in Konsole you go to Settings->Configure Konsole then Sessions, In Konqueror, its Settings->Load View Profiles.

I suggest that:

1. Rename View Profile in Konqueror to Sessions.
2. When Konqueror (and Konsole) are launched, a dialog box should pop up like Kate, asking which session (new, etc.) to open.
3. A session in Konsole should open multiple terminal sessions (multiple tabs like it does in Konqueror and Kate.)

I believe that my experience here demonstrates the need for a common look and feel for all applications - once I figured out sessions in Kate, I should have been able to figure it out in Konqueror, but since sessions are called view profiles, when I searched for "Konqueror sessions" nothing was returned because I didn't know what to search for.