4.4 call for runners (ideas)

[Jacopo De Simoi]

Dear Plasma-devs,
  
   krunner has received quite some attention in the past six months, the default interface has been nicely revamped (aseigo touch) and a few nasty bugs have been fixed (some are still there, most probably either libs or qt issues); in one word krunner is now much more usable than ever (yay!). 

I'd really like to see more runners rolling around in 4.4; we already have (in no particular order):
* Martin's proposal for a kwin runner
* the ones in playground (which are more or less mantained)
* wish for device (mounting / unmounting) runner [1]
* I also remember (imagined?) Chani mentioning she wanted to add basic plasma widgets management with a runner

I've also the following (random) ideas:
* improve the web_shortcuts  runner, by using, for instance, some new Dataengines (such as the youtube dataengine featured in MediaCenter) to provide search results directly as query results
* kmix runner (mute/unmute; volume management)
* skype runner (via dbus, simple calls, start chat, stuff like that) [2]
* generic dbus runner (??)

I'd like to have some feedback about these thoughts, and some ideas on what you would feel as useful runners for 4.4.
Thank you all
  Best


 Jacopo
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[1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199112
[2] this should probably end up in kde-look.org