Re: Epiphany : add a new search engine in user configuration

[cedlemo <cedlemo gmx com>]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for all those valuable and clear information. I am really 
intrigued by the black magic, is there
anything else that we can configure through this black magic?
how does it works?
do you plan to implement the possibility to add a search engine through 
the user interface ?

Thanks a lot.

Cedric Le Moigne

On 12/12/2016 15:56, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 11:08 +0100, cedlemo wrote:
> > in which it is said to modify the gschema xml files in /usr/share
> > and
> > recompile them. I am reluctant to modify the main configuration
> > files.
> > Is there another way to do this?
> Hi,
>
> The lifehacker article you found is really bad, it totally missed the
> point of having a settings framework. No, you don't have to edit a data
> file owned by your package manager and then recompile your settings
> schemas to change the default value of a setting in order to change
> that setting. :)
>
> The Nixpanic article is correct. First, he shows how to modify the
> setting for yourself. I would have added an example argument to his
> 'gsettings set' command, though, otherwise it's not clear that there is
> supposed to be one more argument there. For example:
>
> $ gsettings set org.gnome.Epiphany keyword-search-url "https://www.qwant.com/?q=%s&t=all";
>
> That's all that's needed to change the setting. You can also use the
> GUI tool dconf-editor to do that if you prefer.
>
> It's also possible to change the search engine from within Epiphany
> itself, but it requires some black magic: you just add a bookmark with
> %s in the address, then it should show up in the search engine combo
> box in the preferences dialog. But of course there's no way anybody
> could ever know about that; we need a way better user interface for
> that.
>
> If you want to change the setting for all users on your computer, then
> you should write a .gschema.override file and then recompile schemas as
> shown by Nixpanic. That's fine, though; you're not editing any data
> files owned by the package manager. If you're doing this, it's expected
> that you're a system administrator and packaging your override file in
> an RPM or Debian package, to avoid unpackaged files under /usr/share.
>
> > (gconf-editor, or user configuration
> > files in ~/.config/ or in ~/.locale/share)
> FYI: GNOME stopped using gconf about five years ago, we use gsettings
> and dconf now.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Michael