Introducing Homerun

[Alex Fiestas]

On Tuesday 13 November 2012 11:21:34 Marco Martin wrote:
> agree on above points, i'm not sure how much mainstream krunner can be made
> (and yes, it has to be way more visible),
> even if the text field would be always visible or anyways easily reachable
> unfortunately a big part of public still needs to browse, don't know exactly
> the psychological reason, but that's what i seen over and over again.
People are used to Google and googling everything though but that's something 
you do when you want to explore or to get NEW information, not everytime you 
want to execute the same application you execute every day a few times (you 
don't want to do kickoff--->internet---->rekonq everytime you want to open a 
web).

> personally i never use kickoff (and i keep it in the panel just because is a
> default applet therefore i muct make sure it continues to work :p) and
> being so for most of the developers ensured it pretty much stagnates.
Not only within developers, I maintain 11 pc's for my non-geek friends and 
none of them use it.

> Also i have serious doubts on those things that attempt to do pretty much
> everything, as kickoff and others are now (just like Emacs, that menu is a
> great operating system, too bad the way to launch applications sucks..
> whoops ;)
> the problem is not much the ability to do almost everything, but the attempt
> to put a button for each one of those functions and make it "intuitive"
100% agreed. That's why my homerun only has 1 tab with 1 feature (list all 
app's)
> (again, krunner solves this just fine)
Only for keyboard, and current Krunner GUI has problems listing big list of 
results.

> An idea may be:
> * a menu that has the full krunner features (and same runners enabled, may
> require being another process?).
> * but by defaults it looks very sparse, just some favorites and a little
> button to browse applications, that's it.
> * functions like locations, recently used or leave, still available as
> buttons somewhere (maybe just among favorites) basically it just fills a
> query in the runner field
> * so the user even sees what he may write to see that, making those buttons
> useless in the long run (or, saving any search as a "folder")
> 
> It would be something that looks way less cluttered than kickoff, but with
> not many regressions.
> 
> this is just an idea if anybody is willing to dive into it, personally is
> something on the "to try but very low priority" list. Right now i'm just
> happy with my good old alt+f2 :p
Imho writing a new launcher only makes sense if we want to continue using 
[launcher] [tasks] [tray] layout, you all know that I don-t want that so... No 
new launcher for me xD