Bug 514873

Summary: Calculator in plasmashell opens Kalc on ENTER
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Enrico <enricobe>
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, mikel5764, noahadvs
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.5.5   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: CachyOS   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: calculation in kickoff

Description Enrico 2026-01-20 19:21:09 UTC
Created attachment 188722 [details]
calculation in kickoff

SUMMARY
Hello,
I find the calculation integrated in Kickoff very useful for quick calculations, but sometimes I would like to add more steps to the current calculation. At the moment I have to open the Kcalc app and do the first calculation again. I think it would be very nice to make Kickoff open Kcalc by pressing ENTER when a calculation is open.

Please take a look to the attached screenshot. In this situation I think it would be nice to automatically open Kcalc pressing ENTER. If Kcalc is not installed it should do nothing.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open Kickoff
2. Do a calculation
3. On the "Calculation" entry press ENTER

OBSERVED RESULT
It does nothing

EXPECTED RESULT
It should open Kcalc (if it's not possible to share the first calculation, opening Kcalc is also good)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: CachyOS Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.22.0
Qt Version: 6.10.1
Kernel Version: 6.18.6-2-cachyos (64-bit)
Comment 1 David Redondo 2026-01-21 14:00:37 UTC
krunner puts the result of the calculation as the next query when pressing enter.