Hi, I've added some patches against libgnome and gnome-control-center on bugzilla in order to provide, set and use GConf keys to define the preferred search tool to launch.
The reason is simple: there are several search tools available (gnome-search-tool, x-nautilus-search:// location, tracker, beagle..) but GNOME is still hardcoding the use of gnome-search-tool. You can see this in Places->Search File menu entry and in SEARCH_KEY key supported by gnome-setting-daemon. 'cause both are the simplest way to launch a search tool, I think is really useful make them customizable instead use only gnome-search-tool The changes are trivial: * add new GConf directory /desktop/gnome/applications/search_tool with keys exec and needs_terminal - libgnome, patch ready [1] * add new section in Default Applications preferences tool to set the preferred tool - gnome-control-center/capplets/default-application [2] * use the key in gnome-setting-daemon instead hardcoding gnome-search-tool (really useful if you have a keyboard with a "Search" button on it and you don't use g-s-t as your primary tool) - gnome-control-center/gnome-setting-daemon [3] * use the key in gnome-panel (as previous, just patch not yet ready, sorry) - gnome-panel [4] * maybe, but not sure, use in deskbar-applet?? Please comment, review, suggest other presets for default-application capplet (currently only g-s-t, tracker, beagle and nautilus) and, if you have to power, allow me to apply on trunk :-) Cheers, Luca [1] http://bugs.gnome.org/491647 [2] http://bugs.gnome.org/491650 [3] http://bugs.gnome.org/491652 [4] http://bugs.gnome.org/491654 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list