Thousands Separator in KRunner Calculator Results

Brainstorm
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I’ve looked for a while but couldn’t seem to find any way to get KRunner to show thousands separators for calculator results. I would really appreciate if this was added, as larger numbers are a lot easier to read when you have separators. For example, if you put 10^6 in KRunner, I would like for it to be able to show 1,000,000 instead of 1000000.

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You can check this code building up on the original calculator plasmoid and make the small changes to it for formatting:

Then just build it and add as a plugin to krunner.

But I understand you are proposing this idea for the base calculator.

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Thank you! That was really helpful. I forked the plasmoid and added the thousands separator I wanted.

I do still wish this was in the base calculator though. There are a few differences between the two that slightly annoy me, such as a difference in precision. Do you know where I can find the source code for the actual KRunner calculator? I’ve looked through the KRunner repo but couldn’t seem to find anything (I’m unfamiliar with C/C++ and KDE’s codebases so I might have missed it).

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This one probably, but I don’t see the calculator code.

This has some runners:

Again, no calculator. You might give it more time to find it.

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Just for reference, the code for the Calculator runner lives in the main Plasma Workspace project: runners/calculator · master · Plasma / Plasma Workspace · GitLab

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Thank you so much! That is exactly what I was looking for.

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