Re: [Deskbar] New extension: basic unit converter and calculator

["Nigel Tao" <nigel tao gnome gmail com>]

Nice!

One thing that you might want to do (which should be straightforward
in Python, if you can't get it into the upstream units package itself)
is to support the Google units conversion syntax that I'm used to:
number?whitespace?unit in unit

For example, to convert fahrenheit to celsius, I just "search" for
[60f in c] to get
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=60f+in+c&btnG=Search

Now, does somebody want to do a currency conversion handler?  :-)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=1+USD+in+EUR&btnG=Search