[Nepomuk] search client possibilities displaying results

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday, September 3, 2010, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> To sum-up this means that until there is no proper search client, there is
> no desktop search and thus its services will remain disabled by default
> for most users.

observing users with "search clients" that are stand-alone apps, it is my 
experience that they are not used except by very few people. they are not 
compelling enough to make people use them often enough, mostly becuase you 
have to launch some additional purpose-specific application which runs counter 
to the idea of search being a quicker way to find things.

there is the crystal search plasmoid in playground/base/plasma/applets/ which 
aims to resolve this in much the same way Apple did: make it easily available 
in the one bit of UI that nearly everyone has: a desktop panel. (of course, in 
the case of plasma you can put it nearly anywhere you want.. )

i'd really like to see crystal cleaned up and moved into one of the main 
modules (kdebase, even; i see search as that critical; it could even be part 
of a default layout?). it would allow desktop search to be used as a quick 
locator.

it would also make a lot of sense imho to improve the presentation in krunner 
of results from the Nepomuk runner so that it should more than just the file 
name. thumbnails would also be a nice krunner addition for items that 
represent files.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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