On 10/30/07, Luca Ferretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've added some patches against libgnome and gnome-control-center on > bugzilla in order to provide, set and use GConf keys to define the > preferred search tool to launch. > > The reason is simple: there are several search tools available > (gnome-search-tool, x-nautilus-search:// location, tracker, beagle..) > but GNOME is still hardcoding the use of gnome-search-tool. > > You can see this in Places->Search File menu entry and in SEARCH_KEY key > supported by gnome-setting-daemon. > > 'cause both are the simplest way to launch a search tool, I think is > really useful make them customizable instead use only gnome-search-tool > > The changes are trivial: > * add new GConf directory /desktop/gnome/applications/search_tool > with keys exec and needs_terminal - libgnome, patch ready [1] > * add new section in Default Applications preferences tool to set > the preferred tool - > gnome-control-center/capplets/default-application [2] > * use the key in gnome-setting-daemon instead hardcoding > gnome-search-tool (really useful if you have a keyboard with a > "Search" button on it and you don't use g-s-t as your primary > tool) - gnome-control-center/gnome-setting-daemon [3] > * use the key in gnome-panel (as previous, just patch not yet > ready, sorry) - gnome-panel [4] > * maybe, but not sure, use in deskbar-applet?? > > Please comment, review, suggest other presets for default-application > capplet (currently only g-s-t, tracker, beagle and nautilus) and, if you > have to power, allow me to apply on trunk :-) >
Stuffing more and more things into the preferred applications capplet is really not the way forward. I'll end up like gnome-volume-manager if we continue this... Really, we need a single search tool that can talk to various engines. Matthias _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
