Translator for KDE KRunner (Plasma 6)

This is a plugin for Plasma 6 KRunner. It's a translator and it translates text. Currently Google Translate, Bing Translator, youdao, and Baidu Fanyi are supported. By clicking on the corresponding icon, the translation can be copied or read aloud.

Packages

Building from source

1. Clone this repo, cd into it, and run ./install.sh
2. To uninstall, run ./uninstall.sh

OR, if you prefer to build manually,

1. Install the dependencies listed below
2. Clone this repo, cd into it, and run

cmake -B build
cmake --build build --parallel --config Release
sudo cmake --install build --config Release
killall -q krunner  # or systemctl --user restart plasma-krunner

3. To uninstall, run

sudo cmake --build build --target uninstall
killall -q krunner  # or systemctl --user restart plasma-krunner

Ubuntu Dependencies

Note: Requires Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky) or newer.

translate-shell build-essential cmake extra-cmake-modules qt6-base-dev libkf6runner-dev libkf6i18n-dev libkf6coreaddons-dev libkf6config-dev libkf6configwidgets-dev libkf6kcmutils-dev

Fedora/openSUSE Dependencies

translate-shell cmake extra-cmake-modules cmake(Qt6Core) cmake(Qt6Gui) cmake(Qt6Widgets) cmake(Qt6Network) cmake(KF6Runner) cmake(KF6I18n) cmake(KF6CoreAddons) cmake(KF6Config) cmake(KF6ConfigWidgets) cmake(KF6KCMUtils)

Configuration

To be able to use Youdao and Baidu, an API key is required. You have to obtain a key yourself by following these steps:

Youdao

1. Register at https://ai.youdao.com/
2. Get an API key and an API secret from Application Manager
3. Copy the key to configuration dialog

Baidu

1. Register at http://api.fanyi.baidu.com/
2. Get an API key and an API secret from Consoles
3. Copy the key to configuration dialog

Usage

A list of all language codes you can find here.

Specify source and target language

Syntax: <sourcelang>-<targetlang> <searchterm>
en-de house → will translate house into german (de)

Use default source language

Syntax: <targetlang> <searchterm>

Default source language: English (en)
Alternative source language: Spanish (es)

de soccer → en-de soccer
en hola → es-en hola
fr house → en-fr house

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