GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 421176
allow opening URLs using the keyboard
Last modified: 2021-06-10 18:37:50 UTC
I can use Gnome all day and hardly need the mouse at all, which makes me happy. One of the few times I need to resort to point-and-click is when I want to open a URL in a terminal; therefore it would be nice if I could do this using the keyboard. Rough patch to follow. It adds a menu entry and a keybinding which when activated launch a dialog with a list of the URLs currently visible. The OK button in the dialog launches the selected URL. Obvious improvements to make: - i18n - wording of menu items etc. -- perhaps "Find links" rather than "Find URLs" - support email address launching - be smarter about searching for URLs -- obvious optimisation is to advance cursor by length of URL when a URL is found - HIGify the dialog
Created attachment 85066 [details] [review] initial patch
One of the tasks that missed gnome-2.18 was keyboard selection and dingus navigation, bug 143796 and bug 78921, and is on my todo list once we branch. With this patch I can focus on adding functionality to vte in order to do this efficiently - thanks!
Whoops that should have bug 78291 instead.
Ah, my quick search didn't bring those up -- didn't think to search for "dingus"; what I've done is pretty similar to what Jeff proposed in bug 143796, so perhaps we should mark this as a dup of that.
*** Bug 143796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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