Bug 91068 - Use minicli in Application Launcher applet
Summary: Use minicli in Application Launcher applet
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kicker
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Aaron J. Seigo
URL:
Keywords:
: 90377 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-10-10 19:20 UTC by Eduardo Robles Elvira
Modified: 2009-05-23 04:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Eduardo Robles Elvira 2004-10-10 19:20:52 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

The Quick Launcher kicker applet is very useful, but it's not even half as powerful as "Execute Command" dialog is. In the quicklauncher applet you can just execute commands, but in Execute Dialog, thanks to minicli, you can do a lot of stuff like:


"kcalc" or "kCALC"	-> launches kcalc
"bugs.kde.org"		-> launches a konqueror window to bugs.kde.org
"en2es:hello" 		-> luanches a konqueror window to http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=hello
"es2en:hola", "en2fr:world"..
"gg:google search"
"ggi:google images search"
"wp:wikipedia search"
"2+2"			-> outputs 4
"help"			-> launches help system

[etc]

I guess that reusing the Execute command dialog and using minicli it shouldn't be more than trivial to implement this in the quick luancher kicker applet?
Comment 1 Dan Bullok 2004-10-16 23:07:44 UTC
I don't know which applet you're talking about, but it isn't Quick Launcher.  Quick Launcher is an applet with a bunch of application icons in it.  I think you mean Application Launcher, which doesn't appear in the component field, so I'm reassigning this to kicker->general.
Comment 2 Aaron J. Seigo 2004-11-05 04:52:07 UTC
urls and web shortcuts work just fine in the Application Launcher.

math, case sensitivity, help... those remain to be implemented.
Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2004-11-10 21:54:40 UTC
*** Bug 90377 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Marius 2005-02-12 12:00:06 UTC
Combine with "math expression evaluator" applet is a better solution.
Comment 5 jos poortvliet 2005-02-12 13:57:45 UTC
well, I would love to see the run dialogue's abillity's in the command prompt tool for the kicker... I don't miss much, its only the math for me, but that's really nice :D
Comment 6 Mircea Bardac 2005-07-02 13:41:54 UTC
I'd like to know if:
"command prompt tool"=="Application Launcher"==("Run Command" applet as it is in KDE 3.4.1)
?

If so, I'd also like to add that, IMO, the Run Command *applet* should use the same widget for listing commands as the Run Command *dialog*. This should bring the following advantages to the Run Command *applet*:
* math
* (don't know if the following combination is implemented) removal of duplicates AND pushing the last executed command to the top
Comment 7 Nicolas Dietrich 2005-09-25 01:17:48 UTC
I'd also really appreciate this feature request to be implemented!

There are a few things to think about, e.g. how to integrate features like "Run in terminal" / "Run as different user".

An idea could be to open the "big" "Run command" dialog by pressing a shortcut.


While having such a powerful tool embedded inside the Application Launcher, it would make absolute sense to be able to access the Application Launcher via shortcut. 
Comment 8 A. Spehr 2009-05-23 04:37:38 UTC
Kicker is currently unmaintained, you can look to your distribution for help, however.