Actually, I'd consider that to be a bug in Ubiquity. The suggestion list should contain a suggestion that doesn't use selected text. Its especially important when there are modifiers for a command, given how aggressive Ubiquity is with suggesting the use of selected text (and eventually, other contextual information).
I've added a ticket here: http://labs.toolness.com/trac/ticket/394 Unfortunately, I don't think there's a way around this until its fixed in Ubiquity. - Blair On 31/10/2008 11:25 PM, Gary Hodgson wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have a question about modifiers, and which values are previewed when > something on the page is selected. > > I have a command that takes an input and a couple of modifiers that are > each of type 'noun_arb_text'. > When the command is invoked, and something on the page is selected, the > text selection is automagically offered in place of the input and the > modifiers. All good stuff, apart from if the user would like *not *to > use the selected text in the command. I can't see a way of offering a > suggestion which doesn't use the selected text. > > I have uploaded an example to show this in action: > http://gist.github.com/21258 (man, I love the gist interaction!) and I > have attached a screenshot too which hopefully shows what I am going on > about here. > > I realise that the user could ensure that nothing is selected before > starting a command, but that would interupt their workflow (select > command, oops - realise something is selected, cancel command, deselect > text, start command again) > > I also don't want to actively erase the user's selection, from within > the command preview, as this is intrusive, plus the user may actually > want to use the selected text. > > So, my question: Is there a way to ignore the selection on the page, so > it is not automagically used in the modifiers? Or, is there a way of > offering an additional preview suggestion that doesn't make use of the > text selection? > > > Thanks in advance, > > Gary > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
