Search engine panel you can send selected text to
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Similar to how the translate option works, It would be nice if it was possible to right click on the selected text and search that text in a search engine panel like how it works with the translate panel.
A similar feature is available on the chromium based edge browser.
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Not a bad idea, it's quite interesting. However, there is also the option to select a text and do a search in your browser and it will open another tab.
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I agree, quite a good idea. I also get the feeling that there is infrastructure already in place that could make this happen with a modest amount of effort.
For example, users can already add a "Web Panel" with the URL of your favourite search engine.
- Imagine if the user could flag a panel as a "search panel".
- Panels flagged in that manner could be detected and appear in <right-click> popup menu when there is selected text.
- They could be listed just above the item "Search With".
We are most fortunate to already have the "Floating Panel" feature. This already:
- prevents a panel from sliding away when it becomes inactive
- stops the panel from obscuring the active tab
- stays visible as you select different tabs
So let's see, i can mimic the behaviour by configuring as follows:
- add panel with say DDG as URL
- flag that panel as floating
And "manually" performing the following steps:
- select text then <right-click> [Copy]
- click DDG panel icon
- click search edit box, <right-click> [Paste] then tap <enter> or click search button
It would be pretty cool to boil this down to:
- select text, <right-click> [Panel Search - DDG]
- (obviously needs a much nicer naming format!)
As a coder, i'm aware that it's far more complicated than my comments might elude. That's not right... What is it? ah! "allude". Sorry, "than my comments might allude".
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Maybe really a good idea. But basically it already works great without a panel.
I highlight a text, >right click >"search with" and I immediately have the complete selection of my search engines and can select one of them to get a result.
Alternatively, I can paste the highlighted text into the address bar or search bar.
Is the feature meant to have both an input field (highlighted text) and show the output (search results) - like the translation panel?
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@Dancer18
Yep the idea is that you get to view the search results on the side without leaving the page/tab.
This is consistent with the idea of the webpanels themselves.
All the web panels work fine in a new tab.
But the whole idea of the web panels is accessing information without leaving the page. -
@RealMat0s said in Search engine panel you can send selected text to:
Not a bad idea, it's quite interesting. However, there is also the option to select a text and do a search in your browser and it will open another tab.
I understand that there is already the option to select the text and do a search in your browser and it will open another tab.
But maybe this can be solved in the same way that edge solves it ?
Maybe there can be an option in the settings panel to turn this feature on and off?
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@rajpalan said in Search engine panel you can send selected text to:
@Dancer18
Yep the idea is that you get to view the search results on the side without leaving the page/tab.
This is consistent with the idea of the webpanels themselves.
All the web panels work fine in a new tab.
But the whole idea of the web panels is accessing information without leaving the page.Yes. I like an upvoted it. You may be right that it is not to difficult to implement.
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