Re: Auric Implemented (mostly!?)

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 00:50 +1000, Nigel Tao wrote:
> For those who follow the AuricApplet idea on live.gnome.org, those who
> downloaded previous versions of my deskbar, or simply those who are
> nostalgic for how epiphany used to be able to search from the address
> bar, I announce the Deskbar Applet version 0.4.  It's been a few months
> coming.
> 
> It's been majorly overhauled, re-written, and sexed up (now with libsexy
> goodness).  It does beagle, it talks icons, it gives you your web and
> gtk bookmarks, files and folders, apps like abiword, flickr, imdb, cddb,
> wikipedia, google, yahoo, a9, and the kitchen sink*.  Really, it's a lot
> slicker than version 0.3
> 
> Watch the screencast (approx 5MB flash file, generously hosted by
> sourceforge - you might have to try it a couple of times, though):
> http://browserbookapp.sourceforge.net/deskbar-screencast.html
> 
> Homepage:
> http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=780

The "keyword" part is the worse feature in Firefox, and looks like the
worse in Deskbar as well. In Epiphany, IMDB would just be another choice
in the drop-down menu (it looks like there's only searching the web via
google in there most of the time).

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>