Re: GNOME 1.4 extra apps coordinators

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:56:32AM -0700 or thereabouts, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> Jaka Mocnik <jaka mocnik kiss uni-lj si> writes:
> > Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > > Please suggest your own. I trust Jamin and Ian will figure out the
> > > appropriate size for this release and the proper things to include.
> > new releases of ggv and ghex will be ready for 1.4 as well.
> 
> I think those will be included in the core release already.
>  - Maciej

I don't know whether it's better as part of 1.4 core stuff (gnome-core,
gnome-utils, or what), or in the extra apps stuff. But I haven't seen
Googlizer mentioned.

ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/googlizer.tar.gz
(and ignore the Googlizer directory: it's empty, sigh)

It's not an applet. It's a launcher. It sits in the panel.
You select any text from your terminal emulator, xchat, mozilla,
whatever, in the normal "selecting text" fashion. Then you click
button 1 on the launcher. (ie this is not drag and drop). 

And up pops whatever your favourite browser is with the results of
a google search on that text.

It's dead cute.

Reasons why it should go in:
	"Wow, that's like, neat!"
	I can't live without it
	It's tiny (1.5k of C, tarball is 8k)
	I thought of it and therefore It Is Well Cool. 
	People might be stimulated to write similar ones for the
     online Encyclopaedia Britannica, or Babelfish :)

Reasons why maybe not:
	It needs a real icon. Currently you just have to pick one from
    the bunch of handy icons GNOME comes with.
	GNOME is free software. Google may use Linux, but I don't think
    it gives out its search methods (does it?). Some people might object
    to Google as some evil proprietary company, therefore :) This seems
    a little extreme to me, but if the rest of "core" GNOME is carefully
    free of restrictions, it's worth bringing up. Then again, we have
    mpg players, ICQ clients, and napster front-ends. All are encumbered
    in some way, I think.

Please don't turn it into an applet if it gets packaged, though. We
don't make nearly enough use of launchers :)

Telsa