Let’s talk us about KRunner and what has changed over the course of Plasma 5. KDE 4 and KRunner During the KDE 4 series, KRunner was an important part of the KDE Workspace, and it was tied very closely to Plasma. The KRunner library was in fact a part…
Continue readingEveryone loves Search Folders. These are custom folders which can show you files based on a search result. In the KDE4 days, Nepomuk provided some of this, and we even had a tags:// protocol. Now, with Plasma 5.1, we’re pushing the first incarnation of “Search Folders” built on…
Continue readingRecently I blogged about how we have been reducing the number of databases in Plasma. We have been doing this by using the file system to store additional information such as tags, ratings and comments. Unfortunately, extended attributes are not supported on all file systems. The most notable ones are…
Continue readingOver the last week, we have been working on improving the file searching experience in Plasma. We were mostly doing a decent job, but we were lacking in terms of proper Unicode support and making it simpler to search in non English languages. This blog post is a simplified explanation…
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