https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468003
Bug ID: 468003
Summary: [FeatureRequest] Search a Konsole session through
windows by shell history with Overview
Classification: Plasma
Product: kwin
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: effects-overview
Assignee: kwin-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: ofi...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
To start, a bit of context. Everyone knows memes about opening of hundreds of
tabs in a browser. But it's not just memes for me, it's a real suffering. And
the same sometimes happens with Konsole windows: when I concentrated on my
work, I have no mental resources to properly close countless windows. Instead,
I just open a new window with a shortcut and go on. There can be up to a
hundred tabs in my real scenario. And yes, this is a complete mess, it's really
hard to search the window you need to get it back by some reason. And I want to
believe I'm not alone with the issue
My way to deal with the issue is the following: I've written a simple script
which saves bash command history to the title of the current Konsole window.
Then I can search through windows with an Overview or a Present Windows effect
and this has a great effect on my experience. But still, the solution has
drawbacks: the title length is limited, I can't store neither long history nor
long argument list for commands which means my UX is very limited: I store only
command names
Since I don't see a better way to solve this issue from my side and improve the
UX on my own, I propose allowing the Overview to natively search through text
content of windows
Ideally, it should be a general solution for all types of windows and
application, but to start a discussion about the concept in general, I propose
only integration with Konsole as an initial idea
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