z3n
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To brainstorm:
should krunner always provide a matching application as the first entry?
I am thinking about it because 80% of the time I use the runner combo afterwards I want to open an application.
what happens for me:
I type VLC and press Enter and it opens a config directory inside ~/snap/vlc for example
I am using Plasma since version 4 and I still am doing it expecting it to just launch the app and not the folder 
in 99% of the cases that is NOT what I want.
just did a little test with a fresh kde neon user edition:
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I think that is a good idea. If not that, at least give us the option of tweaking things. For me, Firefox is the first option I get. Why is it different for you? Who knows? If I type sleep (looking for the go to sleep command) it doesn’t appear until the 4th item on the list. Even though I use that command every day, it never gets closer to the top. I would at least like to go in there and force it to the top.
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Maybe add a setting to sort the results based on user preferences?
Something like a “drag and drop” sort system in preferences
malrak
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Either this or a more automatic way of “learning” the users’ habits. E.g. counting how often the user selects certain categories and prioritize them before others.
That would also be fine.
In general i agree that for me, searches without a keyword should always have the applications on top. That’s the main reason why i have deactivated many modules that interfered with that too often.
+1 from me. I’d say that it’d be awesome to have a manual priority override in the system settings; having written a KRunner plugin before, I know that plugins are allowed to set the priority of their contents; however, it should be fairly obvious that applications come before documents for most people IMO.
