I recorded a video and went through the bugs / quirks that make the KDE launcher menu feel so awful.

  • FishFace@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    I get annoyed just seeing all of these spelled out.

    Speed is an absolute requirement for a launcher, and if one of the search providers is taking too long it needs to be removed until its speed makes it usable. There’s no way I want to wait for web results if they take between 1 and 10 seconds. The number of local results should always be such that it can be held in memory without being a burden, and return in an imperceptible amount of time.

    • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      you can actually speed it up a ton by making baloo only index file names and not file content, and selecting specific directories to index