Re: [Usability] gnome-terminal: select the text and search the selected text in google

[Archie Anderson <saphronic gmail com>]

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.