On the train back home from Sint Katelijne Waver, I’ve got the kate session plugin working, which I wanted to have still during Akademy. I’ve missed that personal goal by three hours (or I pinned it down by 20 minutes, depending on how you view it). I had written part of that plugin earlier in the week
and made it basically usable short before I arrived in Nijmegen. I use kate a lot, and have several sessions, as sets of documents that I’m editing often. Now I can just type the name of the session into KRunner (that ALT+F2 thing) and hit enter to open the session — so with 5 keystrokes, I can now start hacking on plasma (and pretty much anything else I work on, it happens to be mostly plain text). The kate session runner is now in playground. The Runner actually does two things: It matches document sessions from kate, and also offers kate’s sessions as options when you just type “kate” (screenshot). This runner will probably go into kate itself, where there’s already the session applet written by Laurent.
The new Browserhistory plugin I had written earlier, currently only searches the immediate history from Konqi’s combobox. I’ve discusses this with David on the boat, and we might be able to use the full history if we expose the relevant bits in Konqueror’s API and ship this Runner with Konqueror. Right now, this runner is in kdeplasma-addons.
On the other hand, for Firefox users it should also be possible to have such a thing. If you want to add support for Firefox to this plugin (or maybe make it its own one), I’d welcome a patch :)