Hi,
In <https://launchpad.net/bugs/131182>, Ian notes that the list of
search engines is rather arbitrary. The list of search engines in
Deskbar actually comes from the Firefox bookmarks though.
I guess the ideal long term solution for Ubuntu would be to unify
default bookmarks, search engines etc. in a single package which would
be used for Firefox, Epiphany, etc.
As a short term solution, perhaps we can agree on which search
engines to include by default, list them on some wiki page and patch
Firefox to honor this list so that newer installation get these search
engines in Deskbar?
There's also the question of the default search engine to use when
simply hitting enter in Deskbar: this should probably be the default
Firefox search engine instead of the first search engine.
The current list can be found with the attached script:
Wikipedia topic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search>
Ubuntu Package Search
<http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl>
Creative Commons <http://search.creativecommons.org/>
Google <http://www.google.com/search>
Yahoo <http://search.yahoo.com/search>
Answers.com <http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery>
eBay <http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll>
Amazon.com <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/>
Any suggestion for additions/removals? Should Google be the preferred
default?
Cheers,
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Loïc Minier
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/lib/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible')
from mozilla import MozillaSearchHandler
m = MozillaSearchHandler()
m.initialize()
print_smart_bookmark = lambda b: "%s <%s>" % (b.get_name(), b.get_bookmark().url)
print "\n".join(map(print_smart_bookmark, m._smart_bookmarks))
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