Krunner has lost the frecency feature (Fedora 43 / plasmashell 6.5.2) STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Type to to search for Tor browser. Tor browser is below plenty of other items. 2. Pick the Tor Browser entry. 3. Repeat above a few times. OBSERVED RESULT Tor browser never becomes the first or even a higher entry in Krunner results. EXPECTED RESULT Tor browser should become higher in the results with repeated use. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: (available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window) Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 42 / Plasma 6.5.2 KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.20.0 Qt Version: 6.10.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I'm afraid the frequency ranking feature was removed, as it made it impossible to provide good default ordering. It also made it impossible to debug issues and thus improve the default ordering.
Well, that's a terribly unfortunate decision. To me the whole point of search driven launchers since their creation has been to make frequent actions the easiest while keeping discovery possible. Otherwise one can just dig through the start menus and such. And I don't understand how this decision has actually improved any default ordering as you claim. It's as broken it has been recently, just in a different way.
Indeed, I can definitely see how it would be frustrating for people whose workflows benefited from it. The removal was controversial FWIW, and there's a chance the feature will return. Nothing has yet been written. :)
Well then I hope you won't mind me reopening this bug. My (superficial) understanding of the result sorting issues was that some months back sections themselves weren't in the same order as user's wanted them to be. Frecency would only apply within a section. Even prefix sorting isn't being done (Plasma 6.5.3/Framworks 6.20.0). So the current overall experience is way worse than what it was say an year ago.
Re-opening the bug report won't change the decision. It will be re-opened if and when the decision is revisited and reversed.
Where was this decision made? How do I participate in that and/or provide feedback? How do you track something has to be decide if there is no bug/task open on it somewhere?
*** Bug 513163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The feature was removed because its implementation was nonesense. I don't think anyone has a problem with a well implemented variant that possibly is opt-in.
(In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #8) > The feature was removed because its implementation was nonesense. I don't > think anyone has a problem with a well implemented variant that possibly is > opt-in. It might have been nonsense, but it consistently gave me the correct firefox installed and the correct result when i type "al" -> alacritty. Now im always more clicks to the thing. A much better solution would've been a checkbox :)
I agree that removing the feature entirely without notice was not a good decision. I understand that the implementation may not have been good. But any default ordering, no matter how good, is not better than the ordering by frequency, in my opinion.