Bug 153325

Summary:	command search results should give KDE tools greater weighting
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	4wy78uwh, binner
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Will Stephenson 2007-12-03 08:31:45 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

The order of the krunner command search results is suboptimal.

As an example, on openSUSE we have a YaST 'System Settings' module in /usr/share/applications/YaST2/system_settings.desktop which gets picked up by krunner, and returned first before KDE4's System Settings tool.

My suggestion would be to use something like the .desktop Weight field used by KPageDialog when ordering search results.  Since we can't influence the weight of arbitrary .desktop files in XDG_DATA_DIRS we can give important KDE infrastructure a greater weight than the default.  

Stephan Binner did a lot of tweaking in the original Kickoff in this area.

Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2007-12-03 08:33:42 UTC

Stephan: how did you solve search result order for Kickoff?

Comment 2 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-02-18 00:28:39 UTC

this precise example works here now. the applications runner is a lot smarter on how it orders things. if you can find additional specific searches that don't order properly, please let me know (panel-devel@kde.org is a good place, too)

Comment 3 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-02-19 11:00:38 UTC

hm.. i can reproduce this if i craft the search term properly ... will have to consider some more trickery to fix this fully.

Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-02-19 11:08:13 UTC

SVN commit 777003 by aseigo:

give items with a KDE category a small bump. i feel dirty. ;)
BUG:153325


 M  +8 -4      servicerunner.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=777003