In the discussions around the last commit digest the question if there will be a common, firefox-like search bar for all applications anytime soon which all applications can share. It will not make it into KDE 4 for certain reasons, but might be a possibility for KDE 4.1.

The question about the common search bar was raised by me because the current commit digest issue 57 featured a screenshot of the current state of the firefox-like search bar in kate:

The problem with this search bar is that it is kate only: the code is in kate’s files, and not shared with other applications.

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