https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457724
Bug ID: 457724
Summary: Add option to not group results by category
Product: krunner
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: natalie_clar...@yahoo.de
CC: alexander.loh...@gmx.de
Target Milestone: ---
I would like to see an option to display results in KRunner (and maybe in
general Milou-based searches) not grouped by category, but sorted strictly by
relevance, as in the application launcher and application dashboard.
Grouping results by category may make it easier to identify of what type a
result is (though that is also provided the icons), but it also makes the most
visible results much less relevant: A very-but-not-the-most relevant result
will be outranked by any somewhat-but-only-slightly relevant results that
happen to be in the same category as the most relevant search result.
For example, I often run into the situation that the result I am interested in
is a VSCode project (from the VSCode project runner extension), there is a
closely matching recent file, in addition several other vaguely related recent
files, and the closely matching recent file is considered equally or slightly
more relevant than the VSCode project, and wins over it. In this case, the very
relevant but not maximally so VSCode project result I am interested in will be
buried below lots of rather not so relevant recent files, simply because they
were lucky to be in the same category as the winning search result.
I have found that I find it easier to quickly find what I'm looking for in the
search provided by the application launcher, but prefer the standalone popup UI
of the KRunner application. I think it would be useful to have an option to
combine the benefits of the two UIs.
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