[rekonq] About Search Engines And The Way They Are Used

[todd rme]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Furkan Üzümcü <furkanuzumcu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 29, 2011 11:16 PM, "Andrea Diamantini" <adjam7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday 29 September 2011 17:15:10 Furkan Üzümcü wrote:
>>> Hello all!
>>> The default behavior for Google Chrome is that if a web page has a search
>>> engine it adds it automatically and when you type say "youtube" Chrome
>>> says
>>> you can press tab key to search with YouTube. I guess this should be the
>>> default in Rekonq too. It's also a better way. I was going to do this but
>>> ı
>>> wanted to ask for your opinions about this.
>>
>> Not sure I clearly understand what you are meaning, but rekonq and KDE
>> have a
>> different management of the search engines and I think it works really
>> well.
>> So, I think you really need to convince us this change is needed.
>
> Chrome automaticaly adda searche engines when available and you don't have
> to do say "google:" to search with Google. Instead you type "google" and it
> shows a message in the URL bar like "Pres tab to seach with Google" then you
> press tab to search. Rekonq style is different. You have to add the search
> engine yourself and set a keyword for it. What I'm saying is it'd be better
> if it was added automaticaly and after we type the name of the web site if
> it was visited before after the press tab message pops up we do sk to
> search. It's way easier and better than what we do now, imho.

I am  not sure I understand.

Do you mean it automatically adds the search engine for any site you
visit?  That doesn't seem like a very good solution to me, too many
sites have search engines these days.

On the other hand, if you mean you can right-click on a search box and
add it to the list of searches, then that would certainly be helpful.

I don't see the benefit of "press tab to search with google", it seems
more complicated than the current method.

I do think there is room for improvement on the current search system, though.

-Todd