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[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 88 points 4 days ago

I disagree. Being able to slap the windows key and type the name of the program I'm looking for is one of my favorite features of both Gnome and KDE and I wish Windows worked similarly.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 34 points 4 days ago

plus windows is supposed to work just like that.

before windows 10 came around at least.

[-] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

It does.... (Or did I've not used 25H2). But given the app starts with a w you can see the issue.

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In gnome you can search for any word of a program name and it will appear in the search result

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago

In KDE I type in "tor" and "factorio" appears above "tor browser"

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

It shows up as "Terminal" in the search results, so I imagine that's what it matches against, even if it is colloquially referred to as "Windows Terminal"...

[-] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Windows has a alias system so for example memo shows notepad.

[-] mech@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Both Gnome and KDE also include a web search. And just like on Linux, you can disable it in Windows Settings.

[-] drosophila 7 points 4 days ago

Both Gnome and KDE also include a web search.

Is it on be default? Because if so I'm glad I don't use that garbage.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

On KDE, it's just one of the suggestions, I believe, that you could search this term on the web. If you trigger that suggestion, it then opens the web browser to do the search.

As such, searching "terminal" wouldn't yield a suggestion from a web result that matches, but I'm pretty sure applications are prioritized above other results either way.

[-] drosophila 5 points 4 days ago

That's good to hear. It continuously amazes me how often search bars in some pieces of software manage to be worse than ctrl-f in a plaintext document.

[-] mech@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

yes but your distro may have it disabled in their default.

[-] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

Bit it will always return

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

I don't think that's a standard inclusion, because it's not there on my fairly standard Debian install. IRsCfAY6HL4Mftd.png

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

It does, in theory... However, in theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice, they very much are not

[-] prole 1 points 4 days ago

In KDE, you don't even need to click the start button, you can literally just start typing and krunner will pick it up

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