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Lancelot og Kickoff

Lancelots fordele

Bedre søgeegenskaber

Oprindeligt havde Kickoff meget begrænsede sægemuligheder, som slet ikke kunne sammenlignes med KRunners and Lancelots. Dette ændrede sig i KDE SC 4.4, da kode fra Lancelots søgning blev porteret til Kickoff.

Kickoff nu bruger således nu samme søgemaskine som Lancelot, men da Kickoff kører i samme proces som skrivebordet selv, så er de fleste dataudbydere (kaldet runners) er slået fra for at undgå, at at ustabile runners får hele skrivebordet til at gå ned (selv regnemaskinen er slået fra).

Lancelot runs in a separate process, so it can handle the risk of using potentially risky runners thus providing all the features KRunner itself does.

Application browsing

When browsing application tree in Kickoff, you can only see the currently open category, and to return to the previous one you need to click the 'back button'.

In Lancelot, you always have an overview of the previous levels you opened while browsing, and in addition, you have a breadcrumb bar.

Logout and related options

In Lancelot, options such as Log Out, Switch Users etc. are accessible the instant you open the menu. In Kickoff, those are located in a separate section.

Devices

Lancelot provides quick access to both removable and fixed devices.

Better Plasma integration

Apart from the look and feel which is completely Plasma themed, Lancelot sports a few other integration points from both developer's and user's perspective. One of the trivial examples is that Lancelot can be used as an alternative to the Add widgets dialogue.

Lancelot's disadvantages

Special requirements

Although the initial sizes of Lancelot and Kickoff don't differ that much, making Lancelot's window smaller would render it barely usable which is not the case with Kickoff.

First impression

On the first start, Lancelot looks more complicated than Kickoff - two-columns plus section buttons versus one column that Kickoff sports.

Lancelot and KRunner

Lancelot and KRunner are rather different programs - one is all-in-one application launcher while the other is only a searching interface. For that reason, only the searching experience will be covered in the comparison.

Lancelot's advantages

More common keyboard navigation

For navigating the search results, Lancelot uses Up and Down keys while KRunner uses the Tab key.

Lancelot uses the Tab key for the search box completion, while it also supports the End key used for the same purpose in KRunner.

Lancelot's disadvantages

Complexity of the UI

KRunner sports a very sleek and simple user interface.

Help

KRunner provides information about the syntax of each runner.

Lancelot and KMenu

KMenu is meant to be a simple application menu meant only for easy application browsing. For anything more advanced, it fails short.

On the other hand, there are a lot of users who want only that - a simple menu from the days of KDE 3.x.

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 Oprindeligt havde [[Special:myLanguage/Kickoff|Kickoff]] meget begrænsede sægemuligheder, som slet ikke kunne sammenlignes med [[Special:myLanguage/KRunner|KRunners]] and '''Lancelots'''. Dette ændrede sig i KDE SC 4.4, da kode fra [http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2009/09/01/tokamak-3-plasmanepomuk-activities-kickoffkrunner Lancelots søgning blev porteret til Kickoff].
-Still, although '''Kickoff''' now uses the same engine for searching as '''Lancelot''', since it runs in the same process as the desktop itself, most data providers (called runners) are disabled to prevent unstable ones crashing the whole desktop. (even the calculator is disabled)
+'''Kickoff''' nu bruger således nu samme søgemaskine som '''Lancelot''', men da '''Kickoff''' kører i samme proces som skrivebordet selv, så er de fleste dataudbydere (kaldet runners) er slået fra for at undgå, at at ustabile runners får hele skrivebordet til at gå ned (selv regnemaskinen er slået fra).
 '''Lancelot''' runs in a separate process, so it can handle the risk of using potentially risky runners thus providing all the features '''KRunner''' itself does.