I found a post on the ubuntu forums regarding removing the \u@\h \w from the konsole window title by editing /etc/bashrc. I edited the line:

PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD}\007"' to
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;\007"'

The result is that my konsole window titles are 'foo - Konsole' instead of 'rob@machine /home/rob - foo - Konsole'. Much better.

My question is, how do I remove the '- Konsole' part?


[moved from Tips & Tricks by spinynorman - welcome aboard ]

I'm not on my linux box at the moment, but you may have to change your launcher's command (right-click the icon you click on to launch konsole and select Propertires) to something like this:
konsole --caption ''

(That's two single quotes with nothing in between them, not one double quote)