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I would love it if krunner can start doing it search from the first character type into its search box. This doesn't have to be a full search. At least a search on the programs I want to running and priorities the ones I search for the most. This should make it possible to start a program with just 3 taps of the keyboard.

This is impossible. The number of results would be unmanageable and would be far too much for any computer to handle.

Let me thank for your quick response. I was quite surprised you turned it down. So I feel that I have to convince you it's not a bad idea and can be done.

Let's first address the 'This is impossible' a program already does this and that is GnomeDO. Give it a try it does a good job of finding what you want from the very first key you type. Let's say you want to run firefox and it finds it on let say the third key press. The next time you want to run firefox because you have searched for it before it remembers and makes that prediction immediately when you press f key.

Secondly 'Results would be unmanageable' this would be true if you were to do a complete search like when you start the search on the third key stroke. But as I said before not a full search. Maybe bringing up the most commons things searched for in the past. Or just searching the k menu because first and foremost krunner is a program for launching programs. But I think it should do both- prioritising common things you search for first. All this would happen on the first and second character typed in the search box.

Plasma developers specifically implemented the three-character limit to make the system manageable, and have declined any request to remove it. If you think you have a way to solve the problem, please contact the plasma-devel mailing list.

For those of us managing the brainstorm forums, it is not our place to be second-guessing the decisions made by the developers. If the developers have said they aren't going to do something, we have to accept that. If you disagree with their decision, you need to take that up with them.