Bug 196771

Summary: KRunner: search in keywords of all installed locales
Product: [Plasma] krunner Reporter: LXj <gotletter>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: alexander.lohnau, kirill.bogdanenko, pascal, shafff
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description LXj 2009-06-16 17:15:18 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

Currently if my active locale is English, KRunner searches only through metadata in English, and if I switch to, say, Russian, it only searches in Russian metadata. There are a couple of problems with that. For instance, I forget all the time how some names are translated (I type "настройки системы" to launch System Settings, while it's actually translated as "параметры системы" -- both are valid translations, just synonims, which is by the way another problem with KRunner).

Another problem, as described in aseigo's blog post from last year http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/02/simple-but-amazingly-useful.html , sometimes the keywords for curtain applications may be not specified for particular locale. So searching through English keywords may get better results, but I need to switch to English locale to do so.

After all, if the user have installed particular set of locale data, he had a reason for it, right? So why limiting him to the "active" subset of installed data?
Comment 1 Jekyll Wu 2011-12-10 13:00:30 UTC 
*** Bug 203417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Maarten De Meyer 2012-11-17 08:47:35 UTC 
*** Bug 304774 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Nick Shaforostoff 2018-12-02 16:57:02 UTC 
possible fix for this bug: https://phabricator.kde.org/D16832
a workaround is to clean configuration or create a new user
Comment 4 Alexander Lohnau 2020-10-15 19:37:13 UTC 
Now there are the runners are individually enabled/disabled and there has been a migration script for years to bring the config to KF5.