From kde-core-devel Mon Apr 29 21:40:31 2013 From: Maarten De Meyer Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:40:31 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Proposed web shortcut changes Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=136750251617156 Hi everybody, I have gone through and and tested most (if not all) of the default web shortcuts in kde-runtime. These are my proposed changes and notes to fix the broken ones. Warning: long mail! 1. Most of the shortcuts that were no longer working only needed an updated url. Amg: http://www.allmusic.com/search/all/\\{@} backports: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze-backports§ion=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=\\{@} note: This is rather distro specific so maybe this should be included downstream? CIA: https://www.cia.gov/search?q=\\{@}&site=WORLD_FACTBOOK&btnG=Search&client=CIA&myAction=/search&proxystylesheet=CIA&submitMethod=get&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&ud=1 citeseer: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/search?q=\\{@}&submit=Search&sort=rlv&t=doc CTAN Catalog: http://ctan.org/search?phrase=\\{@} Feedster: http://www.feedster.com/index.php?page=search/web&type=Web&search=\\{@} foldoc: http://foldoc.org/\\{@} Google images: https://www.google.com/search?site=imghp&tbm=isch&q=\\{@} note: Not broken but now uses https. Google movies: http://www.google.com/search?q=\\{@}&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 jamendo: http://www.jamendo.com/en/search?qs=q=test metacrawler: http://www.metacrawler.com/info.metac.cloud.other/search/web?q=\\{@} msdn: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=\\{@} nl-telephone: http://www.detelefoongids.nl/\\{1}/\\{2}/10-1/?oWhat=\\{1}&oWhere=\\{2} note: 1 = name, 2 = loacation Why is this only for the netherlands? Perhaps make this into a more international service. With the localised query's using different sites. python: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=python-search&q=\\{@}&submit=Search&q=site%3Apython.org note: Not broken, changed to https Qt: http://qt-project.org/doc/search/qt-5.0?search=\\{@} Do we need an extra qt4 documentation shortcut? (Qt3 is removed) rfc: http://tools.ietf.org/id/\\{@} technorati: http://technorati.com/search?return=sites&authority=high&q=\\{@} Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/search?q=\\{@} 2. These are the shortcuts that have moved to a new website. Instead or renaming it will be easier to remove the old ones and add the new site. acronym The chemical acronyms on http://www.chemeurope.com/en/tools/ are no longer accessible using the url. A good alternative is http://www.abbreviations.com/\\{@} It offers acronyms for chemical elements and lots of other words. Disadvantages: Lots of in-your-face adds, not translabable from the url freshmeat Freshmeat has been renamed freecode. http://freecode.com/search?q=\\{@} froogle Froogle has been renamed google product search and renamed again to google shopping. :) Removed froogle.desktop and added google shopping. https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbm=shop&q=\\{@} KDE WebSVN Svn usage in KDE is on it's way out, maybe we can reflect that in the web shortcuts. I propose to remove websvn and replace it with the KDE Projects site. https://projects.kde.org/search?projects=1&q=rekonq note: websvn is a bit hard to use but not broken, we could keep it AND include KDEprojects. OpenPGP Key Search The origianal domain was not working, changed to pgp.mit.edu. There are others available, not sure on which one is best. http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=\\{@}&op=vindex 3. Some of the shortcuts lead to websites that are no longer active, are sold or have no working search function. These should be removed. Altavista The altavista search has been replased by yahoo. It's just yahoo with an altavista logo. We could update the query but I propose to remove it. Austronaut The website is for sale. http://austronaut.at/ Gracenote I cannot find the web search, only an api is available. KataTudo Both the website and the search function are broken. http://www.katatudo.com.br/ opendesktop kde-look kde-apps The search is not working correctly and cannot be changed because it is handled using POST. I have contacted Frank Karlitschek to see if this might be fixed server side. If not these will remain broken and should be removed imo. Qt3 Qt5 was released recently, it's time to let go :) vivisimo sold to IBM. Thank you if you read this far, please share any feedback you have. Questions: If people agree with the proposed changes is it ok to put it in one big patch on reviewboard? I first wanted to get some comments using the mailing list. Some shortcuts offer revenue sharing with KDE. Can a developer not associated with KDE ev. make these 'deals'? I think amazon offers something like that.. Thank you Maarten De Meyer