Krunner, Kickoff and Nepomuk krunner

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 23:34:29 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Robert Knight wrote:
> > > The current square boxes in KRunner fail as soon as the search result
> > > is more than a couple of (short) words
> > > long.  eg. "OpenOffice Writer", "OpenOffice Impress" are all clipped.
> >
> > to quote myself in the first mail from this thread:
> >
> > "what you're running into is that you can't see all the text that would
> > be useful to make a decision on visual scan."
>
> The setup that I find most comfortable in Dolphin (where you get a similar
> situation when you use the filterbar) is shown in the screenshot at
> http://vizzzion.org/tmp/krunner-dolphin-itemview.png

that's a really good start; and would make it feel a bit more like the file 
dialog as an added bonus.

> > c) show more than three options at a time
>
> I'd guess that such items take 30% more space. Right now, we can show 10
> items at once, that would go down to 7 (probably even 6 for symmetry).

we can also make the default window size larger =)

> If we highlight the query string in the matches, we could also get rid of
> the input line.

given that this also needs to be able to run commands like the old "Run 
Command" dialog, i doubt this.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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