I can see the "leap" command as being very useful. The others, well, not so much for me. Neat ideas though!
BTW, what criteria do we use to add commands to the Ubiquity base package? Should it be popularity as determined by herd? Usability tests? Some other metric? Duane On Aug 19, 12:20 pm, Jono <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > For Ubiquity 0.6 we want to include a whole bunch of new useful > commands in the standard feeds. Let's talk about what should be > included. I'd like to finalize the list of commands this week. > > Commands that I would be really excited to have added are: > - Go to (url) (where url uses a nountype based on your awesomebar, > so it completes to URLs just like if you had typed into the > awesomebar.) > - Insert (url) (using the same nountype. I insert links into email > a lot, and I always have to open a new tab to figure out the right > URL, then copy and paste it. This command would save me a lot of > time.) > - Find (text) (Searches across all tabs for the given text, so can be > used as a way to switch to a tab by content. Sort of like the "Leap" > command described in The Humane Interface. I would use this all the > time.) > - Google (text) in this site (Uses google search-in-site with the > domain of the current page. I would use this a lot too. I believe > there's a third-party implementation that does this; we should > approach the author about incorporating it.) > > I also think we should look at expanding the search commands to cover > more international sites -- not just English-language sites. For > example, I think we ought to include popular Chinese sites like Baidu, > Taobao, and Youku. This is another way of reaching out to a more > international audience, and complements our localization strategy. > > Beyond that, Heather has pointed out that the 3rd party commands for > interfacing with Facebook are very popular and might be worth > uplifting into the standard social feed. Heather, are there others > that you know of too? > > I started a thread on my blog to ask about people's favorite 3rd-party > commands. It's > here:http://jonoscript.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/your-favorite-3rd-party-ub... > One person mentions a command called TextToLink which he thinks ought > to be built-in. > > Finally, there was some discussion of image-editing commands during > the last ubiquity weekly meeting, but that's another can of worms that > I'd like to cover in a separate topic. > > Please share your suggestions for more commands to add in 0.6! > --Jono --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
