On 11/12/2015 09:23 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
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Currently, the web (epiphany) browser in GNOME has a search provider so
that you can search for something on the web. I don't use this feature
(unless by accident), as i use Firefox as my default browser. I have
epiphany installed for trying out websites in different browsers.
I know that the search providers are provided by the apps themselves,
but just wondering if in the case of searching the web,
The epiphany search provider for gnome-shell doesn't search the web, it
only goes through your history.
Sorry, i was a bit unclear here -- i was referring to the option that
appears at the bottom of the list of history entries that says "search
the web for <whatever you typed in the search box>". I rarely use
epiphany, so nothing ever appeared in the history search for me.
that there is a
search provider in Fedora Workstation that simply searches with whatever
you have set as your default webbrowser.
It just seems this is a point where a user will get confused when a
different browser (other than their default) is shown when searching for
the internet in shell.
That sort of special-casing could be done in gnome-shell. It can know what the
default browser is (the default handler for x-scheme-handler/http), and could
filter out the search results from non-default browsers (all the other apps
handling x-scheme-handler/http other than the default).
I assume the hard part to have the same history searching capabilites
here would be getting the history from Firefox to be exposed via a
search provider?
cheers,
ryanlerch
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