Re: Access indexing

2012-02-25 Thread Ian Wadham
On 25/02/2012, at 8:14 PM, Stephan Menzel wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Ian Wadham wrote: >> Yes I do (have a Macbook). The search function is a small magnifying >> glass icon at the top right of the screen (equivalent to a "systray" item). >> It drops down to single line-edit type f

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-25 Thread Stephan Menzel
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Ian Wadham wrote: > Yes I do (have a Macbook).  The search function is a small magnifying > glass icon at the top right of the screen (equivalent to a "systray" item). > It drops down to single line-edit type field with the label "Spotlight". Yeah, that's the one

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-24 Thread Ian Wadham
On 25/02/2012, at 12:46 AM, Stephan Menzel wrote: > Just imagine the following use case and maybe it's getting clearer then: > > I sit in a meeting room with my laptop and conversation turns to the > subject "Project Vulcan" ;-) > Now I know I was having some pictures I took somewhere on my comput

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-24 Thread Stephan Menzel
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > Your initial posting sounded like a permanent input field (i.e. not a popup > like KRunner) and only displaying matches from the Nepomuk plugin (i.e. not > interleaving those with matches from other plugins). I can't really be sure if I unde

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-24 Thread Stephan Menzel
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Hans Chen wrote: > Maybe you can use this application for inspiration: > http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Nepoogle?content=145505 > > I hope you'll share your plasmoid when it's in a working state! That looks promising. The way I understand it, the answer to

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-23 Thread Hans Chen
Maybe you can use this application for inspiration: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Nepoogle?content=145505 I hope you'll share your plasmoid when it's in a working state! With best regards, Hans Chen On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 15:24, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:57

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-21 Thread T.C. Hollingsworth
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:57 AM, todd rme wrote: > There is already a krunner plugin that provides a permanent input > field on the desktop or a panel.  However, it is not available from > standard KDE packages, it is only on kde-look.org (although some > distros do offer packages for it).  It may

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-21 Thread todd rme
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday, 2012-02-16, Stephan Menzel wrote: >> No, this wouldn't cut it. There's several reasons: >> >> 1) >> Maybe I described confusingly. I want it to search for arbitrary >> filenames (not just applications) and similar expressions _fa

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-18 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2012-02-16, Stephan Menzel wrote: > No, this wouldn't cut it. There's several reasons: > > 1) > Maybe I described confusingly. I want it to search for arbitrary > filenames (not just applications) and similar expressions _fast_. > Instantaneously, as the apple thing does. There must b

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-16 Thread Stephan Menzel
No, this wouldn't cut it. There's several reasons: 1) Maybe I described confusingly. I want it to search for arbitrary filenames (not just applications) and similar expressions _fast_. Instantaneously, as the apple thing does. There must be indexing for this. Also, besides filenames it shall displ

Re: Access indexing

2012-02-16 Thread Todd
Why aren't you using krunner? It already has most of this functionality and much more in a more modular and extensible form. There is already a krunner plasma widget you can put in a panel on kde-look.org. If krunner is missing specific features it would be a lot easier to add a new runner th

Access indexing

2012-02-15 Thread Stephan Menzel
Hi KDE team, as a fun project and to play around with Plasma and Python Bindings, I am developing a plasmoid (in python) that I was always missing since I first saw strigi digging through my file system. Basically, it is a remake of a little tool Apple is offering in OSX. They have a simple line e