4.4 call for runners (ideas)

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 23 July 2009, Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> Dear Plasma-devs,
>
>    krunner has received quite some attention in the past six months, the
> default interface has been nicely revamped (aseigo touch) and a few nasty
> bugs have been fixed (some are still there, most probably either libs or qt
> issues); in one word krunner is now much more usable than ever (yay!).
>
> I'd really like to see more runners rolling around in 4.4; we already have
> (in no particular order): * Martin's proposal for a kwin runner
> * the ones in playground (which are more or less mantained)
> * wish for device (mounting / unmounting) runner [1]
> * I also remember (imagined?) Chani mentioning she wanted to add basic
> plasma widgets management with a runner
>
> I've also the following (random) ideas:
> * improve the web_shortcuts  runner, by using, for instance, some new
> Dataengines (such as the youtube dataengine featured in MediaCenter) to
> provide search results directly as query results * kmix runner
> (mute/unmute; volume management)
> * skype runner (via dbus, simple calls, start chat, stuff like that) [2]
> * generic dbus runner (??)
>
> I'd like to have some feedback about these thoughts, and some ideas on what
> you would feel as useful runners for 4.4. Thank you all
>   Best

What about  a runner that displays icons for somehow saved queries, clicking 
on the icon launches that query.. 
it would require a quite cumbersome config dalog but i think it's kinda what 
we need for the netbook interface (well, we can make this thing also outside a 
runner, just wondering how it would be cleaner)

>
>  Jacopo
> --
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199112
> [2] this should probably end up in kde-look.org
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Marco Martin