Krunner, Kickoff and Nepomuk krunner

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 10 November 2008, Daniel Winter wrote:
> Am Tuesday 11 November 2008 01:52:47 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> > > A boring simple list with an Icon in front of each result (optinaly
> > > grouped by type or runner plugin) would be much more usable.
> >
> > not really. this just produces new kinds of annoyances (having used
> > krunner extesively when we did have a list .....)
>
> OK, not sure.  Maybe I should work on a krunner based plasmoid for
> searching (showing a search icon in the panel, you click on it get a input
> line and results are show in a list grouped), similar to the one in
> Gnome/OS X.

that would be good, yes..

> And what is wrong about the Icons the nepomuk runner sets? For files those

they often come out ahead of all the other matches, even though the other 
matches are more pertinent. the ranking nepomuk grants and those that the 
other runners do don't work very well together, probably because no one has 
looked at them side-by-side and harmonized them.

> are the default icons for that mime type. Well, I would like to see a
> preview for images instead (would also llook very nice) but that could slow
> down things. Krunners API doesn't allow to first show a a basic default
> icon for mime-type and update it when the preview is ready, does it?

it would require some additional infrastructure, but i don't think it would be 
too difficult to add.

> That is bad. Oh another more generell issue about krunner: It is by itself
> a hidden feature of KDE.  How should one know that you can press ALT+F2 to
> get that nice thing? The search in kickoff is easier to find, and having
> krunners features there too would help.

no one is arguing against that, in fact it's been something that has been 
mentioned as being desireable several times here and elsewhere =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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