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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by magicalhippo on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:52AM (#35885462)
Indeed. As much as the k-based KDE app names might look or sound silly, they're mostly quite searchable due to being a tad different.
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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by jackvalentine on Thursday May 11, 2023 @07:37AM (#35900737)
They might be searchable on the wider internet if you’re looking for info on them, but I can never remember them when I need them on the actual system.
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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by account42 on Friday May 12, 2023 @10:46AM (#35917087)
Your launcher doesn't find them by description or substring?
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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by jackvalentine on Saturday May 13, 2023 @05:34AM (#35926899)
Not reliably enough.

On my windows PC, I type ‘note’ and slam enter to open notepad a thousand times a day without a problem. On my KDE desktop ‘text’ seems to 50/50 bring up… whatever the text editor is called and 50/50 something else. Apparently “Kate” is what I’m after.

There is real value in naming things after what they do and it’s my sole gripe with KDE that they have stupid names.

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Re:The AT protocol is the most obtuse crock of s* by sgtnoodle on Sunday May 14, 2023 @12:31AM (#35935327)
On my cinnamon setup, typing "note" pulls up the settings panel for my installed basic text editor. :-|
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