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

[Markus Torstensson]

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           Summary: [WISH]: New window button: "Google for [GUI-element]"
           Product: kde
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: markus lanai no-ip com


Version:            (using KDE 4.0.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

Some programs implement the "questionmark button" (resides beside close/maximize/minimize buttons) for getting help on the various GUI-elements in the program. I propose a new "get help" button that googles the item you click at. It's a little more complicated than it sounds, please continue read the details.

For example:

Let's say I use a complex program, like Krita, and there is something somewhere I don't understand. I then press the "google for help", and then the graphical element I'm intrested about. This brings up the default webbrowser searching for help on the subject clicked.

You might wonder why I can't do this manually. Mainly because most of the GUI is translated (which, of couse, is a good thing) and when I want to search I have to guess the english original term to search for.
If I just stick to the translation I probably miss most of the searchhits which may have been intresting for me. Switching to another translation just to be able to know what to search for might be a bit cumbersome.

I have some ideas about the actual implementation also:
* Create a central option pane for controlling how this feature work. For example, should yahoo or google be used? how should the searchstring be composed? which language to do search in?
* There should be a common way to adress a GUI-element. Every time I gives some advice on a forum about how a program works I can write which element(s) the help concerns. This will make it alot easier to find help on a subject.

Feedback would be nice :)