Homerun sources and Plasma runners

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 16:58:30 UTC 2012


On Friday 16 November 2012, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote:
> > - Implementing an adapter to load old AbstractRunner-based runners
> > - Porting KRunner to use AbstractRunner2 and the adapter
> > - Progressively porting runners shipped in KDE SC to AbstractRunner2
> 
> <brainstorm from="someone who dug into the runners api a little bit">
> Beyond that, I think it would be nice if runners were turned into a
> library (something like librunner) so that other applications can

ehm.. it is

> 
> > [...]
> > Sources features missing in Runners:
> > [...]
> > - browsing support (as in: entering/leaving folders, application
> > 
> >   groups...) by invoking the source with named arguments
> > 
> > [...]
> > Q: Do we want the ability to browse in the Runner interface?
> 
> I really don't think it's a good idea enable browsing _inside_ the
> krunner widget. It is meant enable the user to quickly run whatever

yeah, don't think that results should be a "tree"

Cheers,
Marco Martin


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