Associations in krunner

[James Kerr]

On Saturday 13 December 2008 Anne Wilson wrote:

> On Saturday 13 December 2008 10:55:45 James Kerr wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 December 2008 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Friday 12 December 2008 23:34:52 James Kerr wrote:
> > > > On Friday 12 December 2008 Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > > > I was trying to find the name of the menu-editor, and among other
> > > > > casting- about I tried putting 'menu' into krunner.  To my
> > > > > surprise it brought up a link to Dyson vacuum cleaner spare
> > > > > parts!  I haven't a clue how it got there, either, but I intend
> > > > > trying to remove it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Meanwhile, what is the menu editor application name?  Thanks
> > > >
> > > > 1. Looks as though you have a bookmark pointing to that page.
> > >
> > > Yes, I believe I have.  But there must be other bookmarks that refer
> > > to 'menu', and I don't want them listing by krunner :-)
> >
> > You could de-activate krunner's Bookmarks Runner. I've only started to
> > appreciate the Bookmarks Runner recently. It's one of the features
> > that, when I read about it, I thought I would never find a use for it.
> > Now I wouldn't be without it.
> >
> > > > 2. Try kmenuedit
> > >
> > > Yes, thanks.  However, that was not suggested by krunner, so I'll
> > > need to try to find aseigo's blog about how to add relevant entries
> >
> > The Applications and Locations Runners do not seem to be as "smart" as
> > the Bookmarks Runner. It seems that you need to get the first
> > characters of the command correct for the command to be found. Whereas
> > the Bookmarks Runner will find a string anywhere in a bookmarked URL.
>
> Hmm - it sounds as though I have more reading to do :-)  I'll give this
> all some thought, thanks.
>

I should correct the comment that I made about the Applications Runner. It 
does indeed find the given string anywhere in an application name. The 
limitation only applies to the Locations Runner. So the question is why the 
Applications Runner does not recognize the Menu Editor as an application. To 
this question I have no answer.

Jim
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