[Panel-devel] rfc on runner ordering

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday 09 October 2007 11:33:39 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > Another (totally unrelated) thing that occurs to me: Currently, I don't
> > get a context menu when right-clicking on the desktop (well, I do get
> > something that *might* be a context menu, its dimensions seem broken --
> > QSize(1,1)). Is that a known problem? (It makes starting up applications
> > rather inconvenient...)
>
> you need to svn up and possibly delete the plasma config files =) though
> hopefully the latter shouldn't be necessary ......
>
> i've recently fixed both showing an empty menu (should you receive such a
> thing, which you shouldn't ;) as well as not having a default containment
> when there is no plugin listed in the config file (which should net you a
> desktop containment now)
>
> when was your last svn up and build in workspace/?

Build from yesterday, early during the day. I'll update and recompile later 
tonight to check. (It's one of those rare days I'm at the office, no build 
environment handy.) That's also when I nuked ~/.kde4 for the last time. 
Anyway, I'll make sure later.

> > Something that also would be nice is matching incomplete words to runner
> > actions. Currently, one needs to type the complete name, quite a
> > regression from KDE3. Is that one the radar?
>
> that's a per-runner issue. runners that *can* do subtext matching are
> completely free and welcome to do so. for instance, the calculator runner
> does that =)
>
> and to be perfectly fair, in kde3's minicli the auto-complete was *only*
> for things you'd already run previously. to get parity there all we need to
> add is autocompletion to the search text box and update it on being run. i
> have held off on those kinds of tweaks, though, until the new krunner
> interface is ready. i've only been touching "guts" rather than interface as
> much as possible due to that.

Aye, thanks for the explanation. Maybe publishing a list with such junior jobs 
get those that are not confident enough to work on something more intrusive 
(like me) to help out.
-- 
sebas

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