On Thursday 17 April 2014, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > comments? ;) > > How about making Kickoff a little taller by default? There is no hard > rule that launchers can only have a certain height, is there? Vishesh's
yeah, making it a bit taller would be fine, it would still be only semi-modal since it still takes only a band at the side of the screen > argument against that was that he doesn't want the launcher to cover too > much of the desktop so as not to lose one's current context when opining > it, but since one has to shift focus when interacting with the launcher > anyway, I don't think this makes too much of a difference. > > Btw: I've talked to Vishesh about this at the KTp sprint. Another > alternative we think might work is to have Kickoff reserved only to > launching applications (so a "search" there would only filter on > applications, nothing more) and an integrated Milou/Krunner in the panel again, this doesn't solve the fact of having two searches explicitly visible. How is less cognitively demanfing "all things i could want to open and search for are from the botton-left corner button" than "well, if it's an application and i know where it is it's the bottom-left, oh, but i can also search for it, but wait, i wanted to search for something else, therefore is this second icon, that has a similar look and interactin, but for some reason, has a different set of results" to me is more a question of "what is the best possible workflow" than "what is the compromise that makes everybody happy" if a valid use case comes up why a start menu shouldn't have a search functionality, fine > My suggestion was that if the KRunner/Milou Plasmoid was not present, > Alt-F2 would launch KRunner in a fixed position like in current Plasma, > but if it was present, it would appear next to the Plasmoid. We have not > yet evaluated whether this is technically possible, though. with alt+f2 it may have problems (due to a global shortcut being possible to be owned by a single executable) however a plasmoid may control where to open it if the necessary dbus api gets added to krunner. (again, to me the problem is not really the konami-code version for powerusers, but what is actually visible) -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
