Bug 229537

Summary: krunner no longer does command-line completion
Product: [Plasma] krunner Reporter: Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: alexander.lohnau, annma, mat69
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description Tristan Miller 2010-03-05 13:03:13 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.4.1)
Installed from:    openSUSE RPMs

This bug is new in KDE 4.4.1; this never happened in KDE 4.4.0.

Reproducibility: Always

Steps to reproduce:
1. Alt-F2
2. Start typing the name of a command, possibly including the path (e.g., /usr/bin/kon)

Observed behaviour:
3. No completions are presented.

Expected behaviour:
3. Various completions should have been presented, both in the input box and in the list below (e.g., /usr/bin/kontact; /usr/bin/konqueror).

I have confirmed that "Command line" is checked in the Plugins configuration.
Comment 1 Matthias Fuchs 2010-12-23 21:26:38 UTC 
Should this -- in your opinion -- only happen for commands?
E.g. if I was typing "/home/my_home/" should there also be auto-completion?

A solution I am thinking of is to only use auto-completion for executeables in $PATH and only if at least 1-3 (I tend to 3) letters have been entered.
Comment 2 Matthias Fuchs 2010-12-23 22:19:48 UTC 
Btw. how did it work in 4.4.0? Were the results displayed with the application-icon or all with the same?
Comment 3 Anne-Marie Mahfouf 2012-04-08 19:31:05 UTC 
Is this report still valid Tristan please?
Comment 4 Tristan Miller 2012-04-08 21:53:58 UTC 
Confirming problem still exists with KDE 4.6.  I can't test with anything more recent.
Comment 5 Vishesh Handa 2015-10-29 11:24:44 UTC 
This seems like a useful thing to have. It's not there with Plasma 5.

Converting this to a wishlist.
Comment 6 Alexander Lohnau 2020-10-11 09:53:28 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 55020 ***