ngraham added a comment.
IIRC we used to do this, but changed it to run-on-demand to save some memory on startup. Might be worth revisiting that though, since I can confirm the latency that leads to the first few characters getting typed into the open app instead of KRunner, which is really annoying. We have a recent bug report about this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416145 REPOSITORY R120 Plasma Workspace REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D26718 To: pdabrowski, #plasma, #plasma_workspaces, davidedmundson, ngraham Cc: plasma-devel, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, ngraham, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, ahiemstra, mart
