Bug 243481

Summary:	Krunner not finding new apps soon enough
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	Tim <tim.klassen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, tim.klassen
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Tim 2010-07-03 09:05:31 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

I have been using Krunner for a long time... since KDE 4.2??  I don't remember ever having a problem of Krunner not having a newly installed app available to launch.  But it seems that the last few versions have been extremely slow to index a new app... it may take an hour for the new application to show up in the launch list.  Has something changed? Is there something I can do to fix this? I would almost call this a bug.  
If possible things such as new apps should be first priority to index.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Install a new package-app, then bring up krunner (alt-f2) and see if it is available to launch.

Actual Results:  
It may take several minutes to maybe an hour or two before the new app is indexed.

Expected Results:  
Install a package or app and have it immediately indexed so that I can launch it in Krunner.

Comment 1 Tim 2010-07-28 07:37:14 UTC

Krunner is always slower then kickoff... I would have thought it would be part of the same module? This problem is REALLY annoying!  Are you aware how slow it can be in gathering the information of a newly installed application?  I would like to think that certain plugins would be put first in the cue or made a top priority to process immediately. (I only have seven plugins selected... I can't imagine how slow it would be if all of them were selected.)

Comment 2 Aaron J. Seigo 2010-07-28 10:40:16 UTC

"It may take several minutes to maybe an hour or two before the new app is
indexed."

that's the job of kbuilsycoca4, nothing at all to do with krunner.