| Summary: | choose order in which krunner displays results of different kinds | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] krunner | Reporter: | Martin Steigerwald <Martin> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Kai Uwe Broulik <kde> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | alexander.lohnau, kde, martin.steigerwald, nate, sb56637 |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version: | 5.4.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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krunner places last used document and image files before binaries
Third suggestion in list is by far the most frequently opened (almost always opened via Krunner itself) |
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Description
Martin Steigerwald
2016-02-21 10:34:52 UTC
Created attachment 97329 [details]
krunner places last used document and image files before binaries
I first step could be, to be able to drag and drop order the seach modules in the configuration dialog.
Another example of this: - I type the name of a directory like "~/Marketing" - … and it still displays a lot of documents containing the word "Marketing", despite me indicating that this is a path. I thought about reported this separately, but one could want to see documents that contains the path name "~/Marketing" and it appears that Baloo tokenizes this to "Marketing" without preceeding "~/". So the more generic solution to this is to allow the user to specify the order to search results. I want to say krunner: 1. executable / app names 2. path and filenames *first* 3. then everything else *always*. One way to allow that would be to allow to drag and drop sort the plugins to the desired order in the krunner settings dialog. *** Bug 399834 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** (In reply to Nate Graham)
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> What macOS does in this case is allows the plugins/search results to be
> sorted via their System Settings KCM equivalent. So you can put Apps always
> on top if there is an app result and a System Settings result. We should
> probably do the same here.
Sounds good to me. Thanks for taking this into account.
I just came upon this again as I entered the name of a location in Dolphin and it opened a Kate session with the same name. For me the frequency of accessing locations in Dolphin is much higher than accessing Kate sessions, so… I'd like to locations in Dolphins come before Kate sessions. Created attachment 120696 [details]
Third suggestion in list is by far the most frequently opened (almost always opened via Krunner itself)
I'm not sure if this belongs here or if I should open a new request.
I just realized that Krunner does not appear to count the number of times a file has been opened via Krunner, and the most frequently opened files are not suggested first. I thought it used to do so?
In this screenshot, I have a very frequently accessed PDF document whose filename ends in "-standard.pdf". Krunner remembers and autocompletes my search for "standard" when I start typing "st......" However, the PDF I want is always in the third position on the list. I don't think I've ever even opened the first two suggestions on the list.
This "bug" (or rather, feature request) is still present in today's plasma. I too would like to be able to select the order in which krunner finds results. For example, if I type 'shutdown' I want the desktop session to be the first result. Not open 'shutdown.svg' or have krunner execute the 'shutdown' cli-command (which will result in a "computer will shut down in 60 seconds" pop-up). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 340283 *** |