reduce duplicated ui's for session-picking in a KDE desktop

[Aleix Pol]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was a tad bit confused today to see two entries in krunner for
> picking a session to start KDevelop with. After a bit of digging, its
> apparently due to the (by default enabled) setting in krunner to show
> plasma widgets which can be run in a top-level window. We currently
> have 2 pickers, one is in kdevelop/app/plasma/applet which is a plasma
> applet and another one provided by kdevelop --ps with a corresponding
> desktop files making it an 'application' found by krunner.
>
> I'd like to propose making the plasma applet not show up in krunner by
> enforcing that the applet is added to a panel or the desktop -
> assuming this is possible at all. The reason is mostly to avoid
> confusion, in addition the kdevelop --ps tool has more features for
> the sessions (shows the state, allows to start an empty one).
>
> Opinions? Comments?
>
> Andreas
>
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I like the idea of polishing this.

Is it possible to tell the applet not to show up in KRunner?

Aleix