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I'd like to propose behavioural changes for krunner:

- When you start typing an application name, say "kat" when you want to start kate, and krunner completes it with a gray letter to "kate", hitting ENTER should start the proposed program, instead of removing the proposal.

- When krunner has several suggestions and gives you a list underneath the typing field, they should be in a sensible order. Consider this:

krunner here proposes opening an old bookmark simply because *somewhere* on the html page there appears the word konqueror. It's not even in the title of the bookmark. The actual application which the user probably wants to start is just the fourth position. So I propose the following rules:
* Suggest applications always before other results.
* Results with the word in the title before other results.
* Alternative: Strigi/"full text search" results last.
* If possible: introduce a counter or check access time - newest and latest accessed results first.

'enter selects' rules!

exactly this is absolute must, this should be obvious and basic thing

This is two ideas, should perhaps be split into two as such?

+1 on the Enter to select (perhaps it should be user-configurable, brainstorm.php#idea88463 ).

On the bookmark thing, yeah that's _really_ annoying, but I think prioritising a whole group like that should be user-configurable.

On my computer (Kubuntu 10.04 KDE 4.4.4) ENTER already starts the selected item

chipukb wrote:On my computer (Kubuntu 10.04 KDE 4.4.4) ENTER already starts the selected item

In 10.10 (KDE 4.5.1) it even does not have that little pause where you press enter too fast for it to react. I enter “kons” and press enter and konsole opens.

I think krunner should just work as spotlight in macOS, it can provide a list of results grouped for type.
If a thing works well, why it should be reinvented?

BajK wrote:

chipukb wrote:On my computer (Kubuntu 10.04 KDE 4.4.4) ENTER already starts the selected item

In 10.10 (KDE 4.5.1) it even does not have that little pause where you press enter too fast for it to react. I enter “kons” and press enter and konsole opens.

Yeah you're right, it does this. So I guess it's already implemented.