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not everyone know about yakuake also it's not perfectly integrated with kde4 style, it would be nice to have option to keep konsole in memory and always ready to slide down from the edge of the screen (or slide from the side or bottom - it would be something new)

I think it would be better to keep konsole and yakuake separate and provide the ability to have yakuake integrate better with the KDE style.

if only yakuake have better out-of-box integration with kde4 i would be happy, but still it has some glitches and you can feel it's not entirely kde it looks little different it feels little different btw konsole have more options and it feels like home i still think that ability to drop down konsole would be nice

PS or preload konsole te be as fast as yakuake, terminal emulator is essential app in linux world!

would be nice to have a feature like this for any window: be able to assign a shortcut for an application, then implement a slide in / slide out of the application window(s) when the shortcut key is pressed.
For example if you assign the F12 key to the konsole application, the first time that F12 key is pressed the application starts and appears with a slide in effect , pressing the F12 key again the application window(s) disappear with a slide out effect and so on...

I think it is normal to have two apps for two usages.
- "normal" desktop user uses graphics interface to control all, they normally don't need konsole.
- powers users uses konsole often, they should use yakuake.

And, after all, yakuake uses konsolepart, so yakuake is konsole ...

@joethefox exactly! for example window with buddy list from instant messenger i don't need this all the time and is useless in the background so when i want to see who is online etc. i click shortcut key and see window slide in from side of the monitor... awesome

it could be configurable from right mouse click on title bar -> "advanced" -> "hide" (click "cofigure window behavior..." to configure side of sliding, speed etc)

PS just don't do this as anothet kwin effect it will kill the idea ;/

PSS it also should hide window name from task manager, (hiden windows shouldn't steal space in task manager and be in the background)

yoda wrote:PS just don't do this as anothet kwin effect it will kill the idea ;/

Ouch! I did it... brainstorm.php#idea88444

Why you think that this kind of task isn't a kwin job? I would be happy if we continue to talk about this inside this brainstorming http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea88444

@joethefox i meant that my idea is to keep application in the background (just like yakuake) hide it from task manager and most important - slide without compositing enabled, this is not about another kwin effect is about bringing yakuake functionality to konsole and other kde apps

your slide effect is other thing it looks good for minimazing windows but is something else then i thought

I think it would be a great plasmoid added to the system tray. Click on it and up pops a simple konsole window which can be expanded like yakuake then disappear when not needed. Would be such an excellent 'tool' for the beginner.

mshelby wrote:I think it would be a great plasmoid added to the system tray. Click on it and up pops a simple konsole window which can be expanded like yakuake then disappear when not needed. Would be such an excellent 'tool' for the beginner.

Would this not be a separate idea for a Brainstorm thread?

There is already a third-party command line plasmoid, you should probably just ask the developer to make it so it can appear in the system tray.

TheBlackCat wrote:There is already a third-party command line plasmoid, you should probably just ask the developer to make it so it can appear in the system tray.

that would be plasmacon(?), on the project page on kde-look.org it has been requested but the author responded "As far as I know there is no way to make this plasmoid (script version) able to be popuped". Might be because its a python widget, maybe someone knows how and could assist him

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Pl ... ent=108120

see Konsole Widget http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Ko ... 39bc0bbf97

Well there is Yakuake, the slideable quake-like terminal, and then there is Konsole the traditional xterm-like terminal. No need to try to make Konsole be both IMHO.