User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060801 Firefox/1.5.0.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060801 Firefox/1.5.0.5 if you type in an url in the verve-plugin it will open the default browser with exo-open and go to that url. Now if you have an url that does not have www in it and you are too lazy to type the http:// it will just say command failed. So here's a new proposed behaviour: open the browser on google.com and start searching for the word/command/url or try opening anything as an url if the command is not found... the latter might be preferred by ppl that use msn.com as there search engine ;) Reproducible: Always
What about making this configurable in the verve settings? Just let the user define a command to be executed when the command is not found like "firefox http://www.google.be/search?q=%c" or "firefox %c" where %c is the command passed. However, I've experienced Firefox only "takes" urls starting with http:// so a user could write his own shell script that prefixes "http://" if necessary before calling Firefox. PS: if you don't mind having another input bar on your panel, you might want to take a look at the smartbookmark plugin http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin
Mass-reassign all bugs from florian@ to goodies-dev@, thanks for the maintenance work! (and sorry for the bugmail spam..)
The smartbookmark functionality that's now present in the verve plugin will take care of this use case - just set the smart bookmark URL to "https://www.google.com/search?q=".