An owl in the snow.
Some minor improvements to Konsole
For some inexplicable reason, in the beginning of January 2026, I got the urge to contribute to Konsole, KDE’s terminal emulator.
My initial expectations (mostly from reading posts made by terminal enthusiasts, and from seeing Universal Blue replace it with Ptyxis) were that people thought that Konsole was an outdated terminal with bad UI and poor terminal feature support.
Now, I didn’t actually care much about the supposed features that Konsole was missing (I was perfectly content with using it, after all!), but I felt like I wanted to make KDE’s default offering more palatable, so that people didn’t have to go out of their way to install a different emulator.
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