Krunner Coding Questions

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday 16 August 2010 12:13:10 David Baron wrote:
> I have a krunner coded with "run" actions.
> 
> 1. I add the actions. Their icons overwrite the "wrench" icon on the right.
> I actually prefer the icons rather than a the dropdown usually shown when
> clicking that icon. So I want to not have the "wrench" icon at all, just
> mine. How?
> 
> 2. The action I have in mind would open the configuration dialog normally
> opened for my runner in the dropdown list of all the runners. Since this is
> a separate "kcm-module," how do I load it and exercise it, getting the
> configuration changed signal to my runner (the parent)?
> 
> (I could simply locally create the UI with my own default/apply/cancel
> buttonbox and do this brute force. But why?)
> 
> 3. I do not want the krunner window to close when I click this action. I
> want to re-perform the match with any new options. How do I keep krunner
> "live" and accomplish this?
> 
> Any help or pointers to documentations would be greatly appreciated. Many
> thanks in advance.
> 
> (To try current version of recollrunner, get it from kde-apps.org.
> Recollindex runs nicely in the background and does not bog down my system
> as does the "default" kde indexer :-) )

Sounds like what you actually want to do is implement a completely different 
KRunner UI. In that case, a good start is the RunnerManager class.
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sebas

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