> When will this finally be fixed in mainline code?
I don't know is the short answer. Unfortunately one of the drawbacks of volunteer projects is that the developers are sometimes otherwise occupied - having said that, Kurt you're welcome to commit the proposed patch once trunk is unfrozen.
> It used to work correctly in KDE 3, so the code to do it should
> still be out there somewhere.
> Would it be possible for you to back out that change from CVS?
The core terminal emulation was ported from KDE 3 but that is all that remains in KDE 4 - everything else is new code.
> When will this finally be fixed in mainline code?
I don't know is the short answer. Unfortunately one of the drawbacks of volunteer projects is that the developers are sometimes otherwise occupied - having said that, Kurt you're welcome to commit the proposed patch once trunk is unfrozen.
> It used to work correctly in KDE 3, so the code to do it should
> still be out there somewhere.
> Would it be possible for you to back out that change from CVS?
The core terminal emulation was ported from KDE 3 but that is all that remains in KDE 4 - everything else is new code.