Pedantic Nitpicking Issues in KRunner

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday, March 18, 2012 01:33:09 David Edmundson wrote:
> Below is a list of really minor "issues" with the default setup of
> KRunner. Some possibly aren't in KRunner code.

i agree with the points made other than those which i comment on below.

patches are welcome, as that will definitely ensure that fixes happen quicker 
than hoping others will jump on a bunch of problems recorded in a pdf file :) 
if you will not be working on these things, then i recommend you record the 
findings under community.kde.org/Plasma so they don't get lost in the mail 
archives.

>     3) Make the delegate taller and word wrap.

this is the best solution.

> * The help view is scrollable, but there is no indication of this.
> 
>     On the desktop, it's not natural to try to scroll on areas without
> scrollbars. All scroll areas should have scrollbars.

this has been discussed before. krunner's view area will not have scroll bars.

the help info is shown in a very quick-n-dirty way: re-using the results view 
method. a nice help info specific presentation would be nice and is probably 
the best solution here.

> * Recent Documents has no description
> 
>     This makes it stand out as it is the only one. Though I can't
> think of anything better than "Documents which have been recently
> opened" which is useless. So I'm not sure.

yes, i don't think a description is required. but it also can't hurt :)

> * Inconsistent padding height above and below line edit.
> 
>     Makes the whole thing look not particularly aligned. True as a
> floating window (10px above, 11px under).
>     (and yes, 1 pixel differences are hugely important!)

this is only the case in the floating window. do this in the top-edge mode (the 
default) and it looks worse.

-- 
Aaron Seigo
Make Play Live
http://makeplaylive.com
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