Bug 173257

Summary:	Returns poor search results
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	Pascal d'Hermilly <pascal>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	dimsuz, dominik.tritscher, florent, jjluza, wilderkde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Pascal d'Hermilly 2008-10-21 21:24:47 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

the krunner doesn't guess give very good search results.
doing an Alt+f2 and typing "ksys" return only ksystemlog. What happened to ksysguard? 
Searching in the k-menu returns ksysguard. and autocompleting in a shell does as well.

Comment 1 Dmitry Suzdalev 2008-10-22 21:12:19 UTC

Confirmed. ksysguard is not found, though it should

Comment 2 Florent Guiliani 2008-11-08 10:54:28 UTC

Idem for "Las" it didn't find "Last.fm" until we enter the full Last.fm name.

Comment 3 Pascal d'Hermilly 2008-12-06 18:02:51 UTC

Confirming for 4.2 Beta 1

Comment 4 Pascal d'Hermilly 2008-12-17 20:51:26 UTC

Confirming for 4.2 Beta 2

Comment 5 JJ Luza 2009-01-30 21:19:02 UTC

I don't know how krunner works exactly but I think it looks for the "Name" value of .dekstop files.
Since the Name value of ksysguard is "System Monitor", you can run ksysguard but only by typping "System Mo..." in krunner.

Another test case is System Setting. In krunner :
- system settings => works
- systemsettings => doesn't work

Comment 6 Jacopo De Simoi 2009-03-05 19:52:10 UTC

Just to explain this funky behaviour:
Each runner can have a different policy regarding partial matches, so this is not really a general krunner issue.

Some runners (e.g. the command line runner) disregard partial matches, some others do not (e.g. the Application runner aka Service runner). 
So to run "ksysguard" you have either to type it completely (to trigger the command line runner match) or to start typing "System monitor".

Comment 7 Dominik Tritscher 2009-05-24 11:41:42 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 165005 ***