On Friday, April 11, 2014 11:47:56 PM Marco Martin wrote: > On Friday 11 April 2014 23:07:29 Jens Reuterberg wrote: > > Just FYI the technical bits are waaaaaay beyond me (as most of you know) - > > this is merely commenting on the design of the thing. > > > > > > > > Krunner is, for most new users, redundant. But for those users who know of > > it - or remapped it to a nicer shortcut (Meta+Space for me) Krunner is > > awesome. But having three paths and two of them vaguely hidden isn't a > > great way to handle things. I think - and I know people will scream OSX so > > loud you could shatter glass - is that we should make Milou an obvious > > Spotlight version. Ween people on to using it to find files and folders? > > > > > > Yes it will be called "a copy" but hell it will make it at least usable. > > what i'm concerned more, more than a copy is the fact that having already > one menu that does searches (and returns a subset of the very same > results, even) is kinda silly, is the typical kde-fashin "dudes, wake up > and decide one way or the other" in osx is perfectly fine where spotlight > is because they don't have a menu with another search field just at the > other side of the panel.
A search field which is mostly hidden and does NOT provide the same ease of use as KRunner/Milou. But if we don't care about ease of use then that is fine. -- Vishesh Handa _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
