Review Request 117450: Add Milou to the default panel layout

[Vishesh Handa]

On Friday, April 11, 2014 11:47:56 PM Marco Martin wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2014 23:07:29 Jens Reuterberg wrote:
> > Just FYI the technical bits are waaaaaay beyond me (as most of you know) -
> > this is merely commenting on the design of the thing.
> >
> > 
> >
> > Krunner is, for most new users, redundant. But for those users who know of
> > it - or remapped it to a nicer shortcut (Meta+Space for me) Krunner is
> > awesome. But having three paths and two of them vaguely hidden isn't a
> > great way to handle things. I think - and I know people will scream OSX so
> > loud you could shatter glass - is that we should make Milou an obvious
> > Spotlight version. Ween people on to using it to find files and folders?
> >
> >
> > Yes it will be called "a copy" but hell it will make it at least usable.
> 
> what i'm concerned more, more than a copy is the fact that having already
> one  menu that does searches (and returns a subset of the very same
> results, even) is kinda silly, is the typical kde-fashin "dudes, wake up
> and decide one way or the other" in osx is perfectly fine where spotlight
> is because they don't have a menu with another search field just at the
> other side of the panel.

A search field which is mostly hidden and does NOT provide the same ease of use 
as KRunner/Milou. But if we don't care about ease of use then that is fine.

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Vishesh Handa