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plasma-extensions / plasma-widget-runners-field

Allow krunner search field to be placed inside panel as widget (like Cortana search field of Windows 10)
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Closed star-buck closed 7 years ago

star-buck commented 8 years ago

windows_10_cortana_review

UriHerrera commented 8 years ago

Krunner is definitely an unappreciated tool. I'll make a mockup.

UriHerrera commented 8 years ago

After watching some review videos of Cortana I made this mockup. In the first image the widget is activated when the user clicks and reveals a search history. In the second and third images upon searching for something the user gets results divided in the next 4 tabs: Application and commands, Files and Folders, Arithmetic operations, Bookmarks.

I added the tabs because in Krunner when searching for anything it displays all the results, all at once and it gets kind of messy so while Krunner can do a lot more than what these tabs would display, these tabs conform the most common uses of Krunner.

azubieta commented 8 years ago

It looks great ! I already want to use it :) ! So the idea is to embed Krunner into the panel or we are going to reuse one of the existent launchers?

star-buck commented 8 years ago

have a widget kalled krunner-widget that reuses krunner as base, just makes it placeable on the desktop or in the panel like any other widgets.

As a sidenote, maybe this is also interesting: http://cukic.co/2016/05/31/voy-message-passing-library-for-distributed-krunner/