Review Request 117450: Add Milou to the default panel layout

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Saturday, April 12, 2014 21:19:44 Vishesh Handa wrote:
> On Saturday, April 12, 2014 08:15:53 PM Mark Gaiser wrote:
> > I meant to say that krunner might be stripped to just run applications
> > if that means that both milou and krunner can be included.
> > The functionality of krunner should just be that of a console line.
> > Only just a simple one line with the tab completion results below it.
> >
> > 
> >
> > What krunner currently is capable of is awesome, but hardly ever used.
> > I hardly ever use it and i bet lots of the people using KDE don't use
> > it for activities, baloo/nepomuk results or even as a calculator. It's
> > cool to have from a technical showcase point of view but in reality
> > it's just not used that way. If people even know it's there to begin
> > with.
> 
> you have no data to back that up claim up. This statement can be made both 
> ways - I know people who love the calculator and the other runners than 
> krunner provides.

Yeah, what the hack? This discussion has gone into "can we not just scrap 80% 
of krunner's usefulness, because, the name krunner indicates run, and these 
things don't start apps?". I see it as a minicli, and that is actually what it 
was before. Having a simple plugin mechanism for this kind of thing is 
awesome, and I wouldn't like to lose it at all, to a point where the "can we 
remove it suggestion" makes me wonder "what the heck are we thinking?". The 
user-revolt on removing something as useful as krunner will be rightfully and 
justifyable negative.

The use-cases krunner satisfies are not just "launch apps" and "search in files 
or documents".
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sebas

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