[kde] [Bug 159463] [WISH]: New window button: "Google for [GUI-element]"

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159463

Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |INTENTIONAL
                 CC|                            |nate at kde.org
             Status|REPORTED                    |RESOLVED

--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
I think this is actually quite a cool idea.  Unfortunately it would certainly
suffer the same fate as the "What's This" system: lack of universal support
dooming it to failure. There is no universal way for something to read targeted
text in a GUI app. So we could implement support for it, but it wouldn't work
for GNOME apps, or Electron apps, and so on.

Sadly I think this dooms the effort. it's well-meaning, but unfortunately not
implementable given the diverse/fragmented state of the the Linux ecosystem.

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