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Bug 421176 - allow opening URLs using the keyboard
allow opening URLs using the keyboard
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.18.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
: 143796 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-03-21 19:18 UTC by Dafydd Harries
Modified: 2021-06-10 18:37 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Attachments
initial patch (7.61 KB, patch)
2007-03-21 19:20 UTC, Dafydd Harries
reviewed Details | Review

Description Dafydd Harries 2007-03-21 19:18:43 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
Comment 1 Dafydd Harries 2007-03-21 19:20:35 UTC
Created attachment 85066 [details] [review]
initial patch
Comment 2 Chris Wilson 2007-03-21 19:40:20 UTC
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!
Comment 3 Chris Wilson 2007-03-21 19:41:18 UTC
Whoops that should have bug 78291 instead.
Comment 4 Dafydd Harries 2007-03-22 12:27:01 UTC
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.
Comment 5 Christian Persch 2008-05-29 20:50:26 UTC
*** Bug 143796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 18:37:50 UTC
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