Bug 263441

Summary:	Add search modules support and configuration to Kickoff menu
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Kai Uwe Broulik <KaiUweBroulik2>
Component:	widget-kickoff	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	apfelmausmail, e.kunig, kde, nikoli, rafa_pradella, sstudio10, web, xenoterracide
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.8.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2011-01-17 17:18:30 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.95) 
OS:                Linux

The kickoff menu seems to be able to find web favorites, and I think recent documents with its built-in search. What it doesn‘t find are Nepomuk files, it cannot calculate stuff and anything else you know from krunner is missing.
It should be capable of handling the modules Krunner brings, so you can enter your stuff into the Kickoff menu and get the same results Krunner would bring. The netbook shell also uses those plug-ins, so why not give Kickoff the same functionality? I know it is a bit redundant having it at two places on the desktop but I think a novice user would first look in the kick off search before accidentally encountering that Alt-F2 shortcut for triggering krunner. And also I doubt much code has to be rewritten since the plugins seem to be flexible as both krunner and netbook shell use them.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Nikoli 2013-09-23 13:31:03 UTC

I would like to be able to select search modules for kickoff too. Or make it respect krunner settings.

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2013-10-27 22:02:08 UTC

*** Bug 272611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2013-10-27 22:06:25 UTC

*** Bug 227067 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2013-10-27 22:12:11 UTC

*** Bug 175523 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2013-10-27 22:12:44 UTC

*** Bug 185413 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2013-10-27 22:13:21 UTC

*** Bug 187796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2013-10-27 22:14:04 UTC

*** Bug 171316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Cédric Bellegarde 2014-05-20 07:33:10 UTC

Should be cool to have this available...

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:10:20 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham