Lately, I found out that Application Launcher also features all the functionality I use from KRunner.
In my particular experience, Application Launcher is snappier at first launch and also returns results rather quickly. For me, this begs an obvious question.
What’s the use case for using KRunner over the Application Launcher?
So far I’ve noticed that pressing Enter on the Calculator results makes the entry be copied on KRunner, but this does not happen for the Application Launcher. I’m certain there must be something else to it, otherwise people would not be using it (even I found myself using it from time to time, but could not understand why).
For me, KRunner has some quick actions for certain applications that I use a lot. Like a quick connect to a VPN service.
Isn’t that runner picked up by the KDE Application launcher as well?
Krunner is better at displaying longer search results. The launcher truncates anything longer than 1 line. Dictionary definitions are an example.
Krunner also keeps what was last typed in, which is very useful if I’m adding up a bunch of numbers, or if I need to switch to a different application before using the result.
KDE and RAM usage…
i.e. it does not use enough RAM
Related https://youtu.be/sCoioLCT5_o
Maybe that could also help @[email protected].
Think it’s mainly just preference. I prefer krunner since it feels closer to raycast when I was on Mac, then when I switched to Linux as my daily driver, runner just felt natural. (Tried out Alfred for a bit but krunner did everything I personally needed)
