Re: keywords as a core extenstion

[Britt Selvitelle <anotherbritt gmail com>]

Ah, have you seen yubnub? http://yubnub.org

On 11/15/05, Nigel Tao <nigel tao myrealbox com> wrote:
> Keywords in a nutshell: I type "wp Epiphany" and my browser goes to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany
>
> The feature request was raised recently (and doubtless previously):
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/epiphany-list/2005-November/msg00021.html
>
> which pointed to a bug report with patch:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118618
>
>
> First of all - what is the "right way to do it"?  In particular, which
> signal should be caught to do the address re-write?  The above patch
> hooks into the "resolve-address" signal.  Alternatively, the
> sample-python-location tutorial extension (which listens to the
> "ge-location" signal) seems really easy to tweak into the proof of
> concept one-pager at the bottom of this e-mail.
>
> Second - what plans do the Epiphany devs have (if any) of "blessing"
> this feature (as part of epiphany-extensions, presumably)?  Because I am
> hoping to provide it through the deskbar-applet, even if the preferred
> browser is Epiphany rather than Firefox (boo, hiss :-).  So, what would
> make this part of Epiphany 1.10?  How can I help (I'd be willing to do
> some coding/writing)?  Or will I otherwise have to install an Epiphany
> extension as part of deskbar-applet, and mess with bookmark storage
> (which is itself another discussion)?
>
> thanks,
> Nigel.
>
>
> -------------------------
> import epiphany;
>
> keywords = {
>         'wp':'http://www.wikipedia.org',
>         'wp ':'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%s' }
>
> def location_cb(embed, address, tab):
>         if address.startswith('keyword:'):
>                 k = address[8:].strip()
>                 i = k.find('%20')
>                 if i != -1:
>                         key = k[:i] + ' '
>                         args = k[i+3:]
>                         try:
>                                 embed.load_url(keywords[key] % args)
>                         except KeyError, TypeError:
>                                 # either key was not in the map
>                                 # keywords, or
>                                 # the URL did not have a '%s' in it
>                                 pass
>                 else:
>                         try:
>                                 embed.load_url(keywords[k])
>                         except KeyError:
>                                 # k was not in the map keywords
>                                 pass
>
> def attach_tab(window, tab):
>         embed = tab.get_embed()
>         sig = embed.connect('ge-location', location_cb, tab)
>         embed._python_sample_location_sig = sig
>
> def detach_tab(window, tab):
>         embed = tab.get_embed()
>         sig = embed._python_sample_location_sig
>         del embed._python_sample_location_sig
>         embed.disconnect(sig)
>
>
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