Re: Search from address bar

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 08:18:46PM +0300, Aki Helin wrote:
> "Sebastian Geerken" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Mo, Jun 17, 2013, Aki Helin wrote:
> > > Currently when using a window manager where focus follows mouse, making a
> > > search usually requires you to reach for the mouse. One way to avoid this
> > > would be to allow using search engine(s) directly from the address bar.
> >
> > What if the "search" dialog follows the "find text" dialog, by being
> > integrated into the browser window? This would also solve some other
> > problems with the current search dialog, which is currently
> > application-modal.
> 
> That would be good in the sense that it is also how you search from pages,
> but the ability to construct queries from address bar could also be
> (ab)used to do other kinds of things, like "toread <currenturl>" -> dpi
> url to save bookmark under "toread", "feed <url>" -> send url to rss/atom
> reader dpi and add to feed source list if found, "bookmark <prefix>" ->
> open bookmark with given prefix in name, etc.

I also think "search the web" is about going to a certain web
location, so in my opinion it's nice to be able do it from the
location bar.

In addition we could of course move the current search dialog, which
would not go away with Aki's shortcut feature into some in-window
thing like the "search in page" dialog.

Cheers,
Johannes