KRunner Guidelines

[David Baron]

On Tuesday 04 Heshvan 5772 21:48:51 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 1, 2011 19:06:12 David Baron wrote:
> > Should a runner flag it hits. Right now my recoll runner should them as
> > "recoll-filename." Other runners show "Mail to soandso" or "Run
> > this-app." However, many others just yield the file name with no hint of
> > why the user is seeing this one. Icons suggest the file's type or
> > mime-type rather than which runner flagged it.
> 
> the runner is an implementation detail. the returned search results should
> reflect the content of what is in the hit, rather than the plugin that
> generated it.

OK.
What do we mean by "an implementation detail?"
What might be and what might not be?