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Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:21:06 GMT
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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 06:15:21 GMT Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote
concerning 'Re: Custom launchers in Gnome panels?':
> Er, I should be more specific about what I'd like to do... I just want a
> little applet that sits there and runs in a panel, and has a simple little
> 15-character edit box, and when I type stuff into the edit box and press
> Enter, I want it to URL-escape the text I typed, paste that onto the end of
> a hard-coded URL, and then pass that URL to Netscape Navigator on the command
> line. For example, in Perl, the guts of it would go something like this:
>
> sub runquery ($$)
> {
> my ($baseurl, $query) = @_;
> $query =~ s/([^\ A-Za-z0-9\-\_\.])/sprintf("%%%02X",ord($1))/eg;
> $query =~ tr/ /+/;
> system("netscape $baseurl$query &");
> }
>
> And that's the whole program! :-) I just don't know how to hack up the GUI
> portion which calls the invoke() function under Gnome, that's all. (Not yet,
> anyway -- too many years suffering under Bill Gates -- and still pretty green
> to this most excellent Gnome thing. :)
hmmm... while I don't use the gnome stuff myself (too fancy, I like
FVWM too much), why not write the whole thing in perl/tk and attach it
to a hotkey? something like alt-L on the root window will popup an
input box, and url-ify the content, and pass it to
"http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=$input"...
Dan
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