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Can I press super/win-key, type [name of application], press enter and it brings up the [application]? It didn't when I last tried, and I don't want a window manager that doesn't behave in that way. Windows, Gnome shell and Unity does it - it's not hard.

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Alt+F2 does this. It's actually done this since at least KDE 2.x, maybe a bit earlier.

Alt+F2 in KDE to bring up KRunner but you can change it to whatever keys you like

Nice. I don't get why they can't just use the super key by default like everyone else, but it's not a very big problem. Is it a fuzzy search? How does it handle "term" and "temrinal"?

They can use the key. They just don't change default keyboard shortcuts during a release cycle (first generation Plasma precedes both Unity and Gnome Shell).

Correct, but actually you can't setup Krunner (or any other KDE shortcut) to be launched pressing ONLY Super/Windows key.

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