Currently, the web (epiphany) browser in GNOME has a search provider so that you can search for something on the web. I don't use this feature (unless by accident), as i use Firefox as my default browser. I have epiphany installed for trying out websites in different browsers.
I know that the search providers are provided by the apps themselves, but just wondering if in the case of searching the web, that there is a search provider in Fedora Workstation that simply searches with whatever you have set as your default webbrowser.
It just seems this is a point where a user will get confused when a different browser (other than their default) is shown when searching for the internet in shell.
cheers, ryanlerch
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Currently, the web (epiphany) browser in GNOME has a search provider so that you can search for something on the web. I don't use this feature (unless by accident), as i use Firefox as my default browser. I have epiphany installed for trying out websites in different browsers.
I know that the search providers are provided by the apps themselves, but just wondering if in the case of searching the web,
The epiphany search provider for gnome-shell doesn't search the web, it only goes through your history.
that there is a search provider in Fedora Workstation that simply searches with whatever you have set as your default webbrowser.
It just seems this is a point where a user will get confused when a different browser (other than their default) is shown when searching for the internet in shell.
That sort of special-casing could be done in gnome-shell. It can know what the default browser is (the default handler for x-scheme-handler/http), and could filter out the search results from non-default browsers (all the other apps handling x-scheme-handler/http other than the default).
On 11/12/2015 09:23 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
----- Original Message -----
Currently, the web (epiphany) browser in GNOME has a search provider so that you can search for something on the web. I don't use this feature (unless by accident), as i use Firefox as my default browser. I have epiphany installed for trying out websites in different browsers.
I know that the search providers are provided by the apps themselves, but just wondering if in the case of searching the web,
The epiphany search provider for gnome-shell doesn't search the web, it only goes through your history.
Sorry, i was a bit unclear here -- i was referring to the option that appears at the bottom of the list of history entries that says "search the web for <whatever you typed in the search box>". I rarely use epiphany, so nothing ever appeared in the history search for me.
that there is a search provider in Fedora Workstation that simply searches with whatever you have set as your default webbrowser.
It just seems this is a point where a user will get confused when a different browser (other than their default) is shown when searching for the internet in shell.
That sort of special-casing could be done in gnome-shell. It can know what the default browser is (the default handler for x-scheme-handler/http), and could filter out the search results from non-default browsers (all the other apps handling x-scheme-handler/http other than the default).
I assume the hard part to have the same history searching capabilites here would be getting the history from Firefox to be exposed via a search provider?
cheers, ryanlerch
Well the solution is to write a Firefox search provider.
The Epiphany search provider is provided by the epiphany package (not installed by default). It's not in the epiphany-runtime package (installed by default) so our users don't get it unless they install Epiphany. I don't think there's any problem here. :)
Michael
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