Bug 382581

Summary:	Add window search in places which list open windows
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	EP <bertyfogs+kdebugs>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description EP 2017-07-22 09:39:44 UTC

Having many windows open I often miss the ability to effectively search through them. There are many places which list open windows in some way: Window List, Task Switcher, Present Windows are some of them that I constantly use, but none of them can do the search. The KRunner can only search in all active sources, which is inconvenient (and a regression from the kde4 version). So the framework for searching is already there, it just must be made use of.

Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-07-25 20:34:27 UTC

> The KRunner can only search in all active sources, which is inconvenient (and a regression from the kde4 version).

Can you explain this in more detail, please? What does "active sources" mean?

Btw you can also start typing in Present Windows to filter.

Comment 2 EP 2017-07-26 08:47:10 UTC

> Btw you can also start typing in Present Windows to filter.

Wow, thank you very much, this wasn't evident to me, at all. Consider adding a search bar maybe?

> Can you explain this in more detail, please? What does "active sources" mean?

Active sources = currently enabled search plugins. It was possible before to assign a shortcut to a plugin-scoped search, like this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/0eleR.png, was very convenient.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-03-09 04:08:47 UTC

Present windows is basically the use case for this. :)