KRunner Guidelines

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 21:00:54 David Baron wrote:
> 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?

Good:
- "open this file"
- "send this file to..."
- "start app X'
- "Do Y with Z"

Bad:
- "Photoshop runner has found a match"
- "recoll has found a match"

I.e., it should not matter which runner returned the match.
-- 
sebas

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