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Currently (KDE 4.2.1), krunner (I use lancelot, but I think it applies to default krunner too) is only able to autocomplete items that belong to menu.

Some time ago, I noted that Gnome was able to autocomplete paths from the runner app, such as Windows also does. It is very handy and I can't understand why I can't do that in KDE (3 and 4). Konqueror, Dolphin and some dialogs allow me to use auto-completion for writing paths (even konsole allows that using tabs) in a faster way. Why krunner doesn't allow that? It would be great to use auto-completion for opening some folder in dolphin after writing with auto-complete aid some path such as "/home/user/Documents/presentations". Or "c:documents and settingsuserMy Documentspresentations" when running on Windows (maybe it already does that on Windows, but I can't know since I don't own Windows).

Additionally, it would be good to be able to run commands in $PATH that are not included in the menus. It would also be great to have an option in a checkbox "Run into konsole", so that I could check it and write "du -chs /home/user/*" and see the result in a konsole session.

It also be good to have another checkbox option in krunner: "run as another user" so that I could check it and call 'systempreferences' or 'updatedb', choose the user (defaults to 'root') and type the password.

I guess it will be able to do that and much more when nepomuk/strigi/soprano/... will be fully implemented.

Primoz, I think that autocompletion should be very easy to implement (well, not for me since I don't know how KDE development works yet, but I know that integrating readline in C++ programs is pretty simple, for instance and I also know that dolphin and konqueror already use some implementation for achieving this behaviour) and we could benefit from it until nepomuk, etc will be fully functional.

Agreed. I really don't know why it isn't implemented. But I had the feeling that des decided to wait until full-semantic-desktop kicks-in and
brings it to the next level. But I really don't know.

Original poster rosenfeld is spot on. This has nothing to do with Nepomuk/Strigi/semantic desktop whatever.

Here\'s my simple use case (KDE 4.3 on Kubuntu 9.04). I print something to mydoc.pdf in workdir. Now I want to see it. I press Alt-F2 and type ~/wor. *Obviously* path and filename completion should occur, just as in a terminal (although pressing [Tab] can\'t be used to force completion) or a File Open dialog. Instead, KRunner only seems to auto-complete recently used directories and paths.

Likewise, if I enter program_name and then a space, I\'m probably giving the path to a file. KRunner\'s dropdown offers to "Run okular ~/wor" but the Command-line runner doesn\'t do the same filename completion that any shell handles with ease.

If this is really hard, maybe there could be a runner just for kde-open (the command to open any path or URL).

Maybe Kickoff should do this as well. If I type a ~ or a well-known directory, or the moment I type a / , it can assume I\'m giving the path to something. Defaulting to Search isn\'t always the right thing. Windows\' Start > Run behavior is closer to what users expect.

This is driving me nuts personally. I use this feature in windows for everything... I don't use any of the other KRunner features, except for the calculator from time to time.

Any update on this feature request?

Bring back the drop-down history list into Krunner !

It allowed repeated launch using the mouse only, without Keyboard use. Now one must type stuff ! VERY BAD AND NOT ERGONOMIC !