[PATCH] Quick Google search from context menu

[kikecalpe]

[PATCH] Quick Google search from context menu http://guake.org/ticket/443
Reported by: Igor Owned by: somebody
Priority: Fix available Milestone: 0.5.0
Component: guake Version:
Keywords: google search, context menu Cc:
Description

One feature I was heavily missing in Guake was an ability to run a Google search on selected text. Something similar to a feature of gnome-terminal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBPEME4lc8s

This patch does exactly that - if there is text selected in the Guake terminal, context menu will contain an extra menuitem, allowing to quickly run a Google search on the selection.

Comes in very handy while troubleshooting broken builds/runtime errors etc.

Since "Google" is an international word, no extra work with translations is needed.

Stibbons: TODO: merge and modify the patch, add engine and hotkey in gconf

[kikecalpe]

Changed  by Igor

http://guake.org/attachment/ticket/443/0001-Quick-Google-search-from-context-menu.patch
Adds an extra "Google search" menuitem to context menu if text is selected in terminal.

[gsemet]

I'm not fan of this but I'll see if I can do it properly

[pypingou]

Not fan either

[gsemet]

Will not do it. Copy/paste is not that difficult.

I much prefere having a setting to automatically open a text editor when clicking on an error message for instance

[gsemet]

won't fix. Closing it

[gsemet]

I'm not so sure it is not a good idea, actually. We (developers) face from time to time outputs on the terminal we don't know what to do with it, so the first thing we do is we google it. Since we are already able to open a URL printed on the terminal by Ctrl+click, why not having "Search on web" entry on the context menu? Reopening it

[pypingou]

And maybe we could search my desktop by parsing the stacktrace and directly open the file where the error occured.

And maybe we could include a countdown timer to remind me to take my tea bag off my cup 1minute after putting it in.

All are nice ideas, but I just don't think we should include them in guake.

[gsemet]

no kidding, it is actually quite useful for developers. It's worth a try

[gsemet]

(done only on my fork)