Re: [Usability] gnome-terminal: select the text and search the selected text in google
- From: Grabber <grabber gmail com>
- To: "Archie Anderson" <saphronic gmail com>
- Cc: usability gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Usability] gnome-terminal: select the text and search the selected text in google
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:09:54 -0200
Yves-Gwenael Bourhis,
My test implementation is it. Give to user a option to choose your prefered text search engine.
Archie Anderson,
I don`t know how deskbar works so much, but i will see...
Regards,
Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso aka Grabber.
On Nov 12, 2007 4:27 PM, Archie Anderson <
saphronic gmail com> wrote:
Yves-Gwenael Bourhis wrote:
> Le vendredi 2 novembre 2007, Ross Burton a écrit :
>
>> On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:16 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote:
>>
>>> Actually I think it would be more useful to be able to
>>> drag text from gnome-terminal and drop it onto a panel
>>> applet that did a search in the default Web browser...
>>>
>> Agreed. Add "search on google" to gnome-terminal and you'll get two
>> bugs reports:
>>
>> 1) I want to use Yahoo (etc) search
>> 2) I want to Search On Google from [some other application]
>>
>
> And how about the Button being called "search on web" instead of "search on
> google"?
> And in the menus an option to Configure the "search on web" function
> with : "prefered search engin" and "prefered browser" and "prefered language"
> (and a checkmark button "Use browser preferences" instead of selecting the
> language)
>
> Wouldn't that fit any ones needs?
>
>
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Doesn't the Deskbar applet already do just that? Select text in any
application and press Alt+F5 to search for it. You might need to turn on
that feature separately, but it's definitely there.
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Atenciosamente,
Luiz Vitor.
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