Introducing Homerun

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday, November 9, 2012 23:09:35 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> As you can see, it is a fullscreen launcher with content organized in tabs.

i find it to be a very interesting approach, and one that imho has potential.

there are a number of visual issues right now and a few usability ones. if you 
could let us know what sort of feedback would be helpful to you, or 
alternatively when such feedback would be useful, i'd be happy to write more 
on this ...

i think with some additional work, this could make a useful replacement for 
kickoff in a future release.

i'm a little sad that the early work of making a QML SaL has been lost, 
however. that seems like a bit of a lost opportunity. is there any earlier 
work on this goal that can be salvaged, or did the objectives get changed 
almost instantly from the beginning?

> One of the main differences between Homerun sources and Plasma runners is
> that sources can provide default content

as can runners (for many releases now). a Runner can define its default syntax, 
and that can then be used to get the default content from it by passing that 
syntax in to the match method. this is how KRunner shows content by default 
when pulling up a specific running in "single runner mode".

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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