Hi, On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:39:52AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 5. November 2009 14:24:55 schrieb > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net:
> > > alt-F2 -> gg:google search -> enter -> konqueror starts the > > > search. > > > > It's stupid to have such a feature *within* some program. Such stuff > > should be handled globally. See my recent rant: > > > > http://tri-ceps.blogspot.com/2009/06/one-shell-to-rule-them-all.html > > > > (IMHO one of my best so far :-) ) > > Sounds like KDE + shell integration could be a first step for you... I don't think KDE does any better than GNOME in this regard; nor does any other desktop environment I know about... And thus I'm not using any. I'm not sure whether this was clear enough in the article: the "shell" I'm talking about there is not actually the traditional UNIX shell. Most programs have features that can't be properly integreated into a commandline-only shell. I'm more thinking in the direction of GUI shells like Nautilus. ("Shell" as a general term refers to a part of a program that handles the user interaction -- every traditional application has an own shell. And this is precisely what I propose to change.) > > It's just stupid that with the fat full-featured browsers, opening a > > new page from the shell is not just as easy as starting the browser > > in the default way. > > You mean something like this? > > kfmclient newTab "http://1w6.org"; Sounds like it might be more or less right. My point is that I shouldn't need to learn such an obscure command. I should be able just to do "firefox http://1w6.org"; -- regardless whether there is a Firefox already running or not. Actually this seems to work nowadays with firefox :-) I seem to remember that it didn't in the past... The only remaining inconsistency is that it exits immediately when there was a firefox already running, while the first instance blocks... But that's not much of a problem -- I can just run it in the background in either case. > kfmclient newTab gg:1w6 > > (if you have gg: as shortcut for "search in google", then this > searches google for "1w6"). > > you could make this more convenient for shell users with the alias > > alias kon='kfmclient newTab' > > Now you could just use "kon gg:1w6" to search for 1w6. Why would I want to use two levels of aliases? I'd simply define: go() { firefox google.com/search?q="$*"; } There are other reasons though why I'll stay with the netrik-based variant I mentioned before for now :-) -antrik-
