Adding a runner to KDE

[Ryan P. Bitanga]

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:04 AM, Aaron J. Seigo<aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 August 2009, Jan Gerrit Marker wrote:
>> The playground runner offers 3 actions for every match, but this is only
>> used in the "QuickSand" interface. It isn't very good for the standard
>> interface, or? Shouldn't it be changed?
>
> two answers:
>
> a) we should make actions available in the standard UI for 4.4

I vote for option A! Though that means rethinking the UI a bit.

>
> b) actions-on-matches should only be used for things that act on the match but
> aren't necessarily related to the query term itself ("verbing the noun"). in
> the case of media players it's pretty natural to go this route since if i type
> "jeremy" and it comes up with the Pearl Jam song, it should also offer an
> action to play it. but i should _also_ be able to do "play jeremy" in krunner
> and not have to worry about the action.

You could always link a keyword to an action. Say set the action for
the returned QueryMatches in the match method if a keyword is
detected.

Ryan