Review Request 117450: Add Milou to the default panel layout
Aleix Pol Gonzalez
aleixpol at kde.org
Sat Apr 12 10:55:43 UTC 2014
> On April 10, 2014, 9:16 a.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > so, right now we already have two search uis added by default in the default setup: kickoff and krunner.
> > adding a 3rd one by default, just no.
> >
> > what should be done is having the milou search ui into the kickoff search (and/or whoever will replace it in the future)
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> just want to say that I think in the same line as Marco here.
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> Vishesh Handa wrote:
> The way I see it we currently have 2 hidden ways of searching.
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> Kick off - It's not obvious that you can starting typing and that will give search results.
> KRunner - You need to know the shortcut
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> Also, the quality/presentation of the search results in quite different in Kick Off in comparison to KRunner / Milou.
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> I don't see the Milou Search UI going into KickOff. It presents data very differently than how Milou displays stuff, it would look quite strange.
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> Mark Gaiser wrote:
> I very much like the idea of having Milou added there by default.
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> Yea sure, we have kickoff and krunner. Kickoff is not at all intuitive when it comes to searching. I just avoid using it when i can. Sometimes i even remove kickoff and put some other menu widget there. Milou looks very much like an application suitable for todays search needs. Nice and grouped. KRunner is missing that overview.
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> Perhaps remove krunner while making Milou the default?
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> My concern is more on how the users will see it. Will they understand that Milou and Kickoff work differently or will they think that we ship redundant features by default? So yes they serve a different purpose, but from an end user perspective I rather doubt it.
Let's concentrate in making Milou+KRunner fully usable and then we can iterate over the idea after 2.0.
It's better to have 1 fully working (albeit hidden) feature.
- Aleix
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On April 9, 2014, 3:22 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
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> (Updated April 9, 2014, 3:22 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> KRunner is hidden away as it is only accessible via a shortcut. It will be nice to have the plasmoid visible by default. It will not be an extra dependency as plasma-workspace already depends on Milou because of KRunner.
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> Diffs
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> desktoppackage/contents/layout.js 303e7af
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117450/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Vishesh Handa
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