Howdy, I'm looking for a sponsor for a utility that I wrote and want to make available via Debian. It's a simple program that makes issuing queries on web sites or via programs very efficient in terms of keystrokes.
When invoked, it grabs the X selection and puts it in a text box. You can then edit the text or enter something completely different and press a key combination to substitute the text into a URL and launch a web browser with that URL (for examplpe, Ctrl-g for a Google search, or Ctrl-d to invoke gdict on the text). It's useful for doing things that one does frequently like web searches, dictionary lookups, and so on. I have my window manager configured to invoke it when I press Alt-~, so I can do things like select a word, press Alt-~ then Ctrl-d to invoke gdict on the word. Or select an address and Alt-~ then Ctrl-m to look the address up on Yahoo Maps. Web searches are as easy as pressing Alt-~, entering the query and pressing Ctrl-g. The possibilities are numerous and the time savings is substantial. The mappings from key combo to URL/command line are configurable via a GTK GUI. It can also be run as an applet in the GNOME toolbar, but I find that using it as a standalone application is more efficient. It can be downloaded via apt-get: deb http://www.waywardgeeks.org/code/debian unstable main deb-src http://www.waywardgeeks.org/code/debian unstable main the package name is 'lookuplet'. There is also a web site: http://www.waywardgeeks.org/code/lookuplet/ Thanks, -- mdb /o)\ "The more it resisted me, the more I knew I would enjoy the \(o/ pleasure of deleting it." -- Ellen Ullman on Windows NT
