Default web browser search provider in GNOME shell

[Ryan Lerch]

On 11/12/2015 09:23 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Currently, the web (epiphany) browser in GNOME has a search provider so
>> that you can search for something on the web. I don't use this feature
>> (unless by accident), as i use Firefox as my default browser. I have
>> epiphany installed for trying out websites in different browsers.
>>
>> I know that the search providers are provided by the apps themselves,
>> but just wondering if in the case of searching the web,
> The epiphany search provider for gnome-shell doesn't search the web, it
> only goes through your history.

Sorry, i was a bit unclear here -- i was referring to the option that 
appears at the bottom of the list of history entries that says "search 
the web for <whatever you typed in the search box>". I rarely use 
epiphany, so nothing ever appeared in the history search for me.

>
>> that there is a
>> search provider in Fedora Workstation that simply searches with whatever
>> you have set as your default webbrowser.
>>
>> It just seems this is a point where a user will get confused when a
>> different browser (other than their default) is shown when searching for
>> the internet in shell.
> That sort of special-casing could be done in gnome-shell. It can know what the
> default browser is (the default handler for x-scheme-handler/http), and could
> filter out the search results from non-default browsers (all the other apps
> handling x-scheme-handler/http other than the default).

I assume the hard part to have the same history searching capabilites 
here would be getting the history from Firefox to be exposed via a 
search provider?

cheers,
ryanlerch