Making paths case insensitive in krunner

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Sat Jan 17 18:50:43 CET 2009


On Friday 16 January 2009, Diaa Sami wrote:
> My name is Diaa sami and I'm relatively new to KDE development, recently

welcome to KDE, Diaa =)

> I've been working on making path completion in KDE case insensitive[1],
> which should be more productive, I've already made Konqueror, Dolphin and
> the file dialogs provide case-insensitive path completion, these changes
> are already in KDE 4.2 I was thinking that when launching files and folders
> in krunner using the Locations plugin, paths shouldn't be case-sensitive,
> or at least it can be an option. upon examining the code I found that it's
> krunner that needs modification because it is where the type of the command
> is determined(and found to be a file or a folder).
>
> I've already wrote the code to recognize and correct paths with incorrect
> case, but I did it in a separate application for easier testing and
> debugging.
>
> so what do you think?

sure; if you can come to the list with some patches, i see no reason (assuming 
the performance is still good =) they couldn't go in...

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