01-04-2011, 06:35 PM | #196 |
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Great links, thanks for sharing, I have added them in the plugin list.
I have also added the ability to optionally specify a submenu name to allow grouping menu item URLs. So for instance you could put all the Amazon related ones under an "Amazon" sub-menu, or perhaps ones you don't use very often under another menu. Just to help keep the context menu manageable if you decide you want to have access to a number of these... Getting closer to the end, just need to sort out some help text on the dialog and then will be looking for a guinea pig to offer feedback on how well the new version works in the next day or so. It's fully functional now, just a few little things I want to finish off. Any volunteers just send me a PM. Right now I'm heading out for a few hours fishing... Last edited by kiwidude; 01-04-2011 at 06:40 PM. |
01-04-2011, 07:36 PM | #197 |
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More "Search the Internet" links
If it is not too late, here's a few more links that I use. I'm not sure if the Audible links would be appropriate for everyone, but I use Calibre to track my audio books as well (and apparently I'm not alone according to another recent thread "audio books in calibre")
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('Kobo for Author', 'stip_kobo.png', 'http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q={author}&t=all&f=author&p=1&s=numpurchases&g=both','utf-8', None), ('Kobo for Title', 'stip_kobo.png', 'http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q={title}&','utf-8', None), ('Inkmesh for Book', 'stip_inkmesh.png', 'http://www.inkmesh.com/search/?qs={title}+by+{author}&btnE=Find+Ebooks','utf-8', None), ('Audible for Author', 'stip_audible.png', 'http://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=&searchTitle=&searchAuthor={author}&searchNarrator=&searchProvider=&field_subjectbin=&field_content_type-bin=&field_format-bin=&field_price=&field_product_site_launch_date=&field_runtime=&field_language=English&x=0&y=0','utf-8', None), ('Audible for Book', 'stip_audible.png', 'http://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=&searchTitle={title}&searchAuthor={author}&searchNarrator=&searchProvider=&field_subjectbin=&field_content_type-bin=&field_format-bin=&field_price=&field_product_site_launch_date=&field_runtime=&field_language=English&x=0&y=0','utf-8', None), |
01-04-2011, 08:05 PM | #198 |
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Definitely not too late for yours and others, it will be a couple more days at least before I post the plugin. Will add your links to the list, thanks.
I'm not too worried about "less common" urls, they just won't be active by default and saves the effort of creating for the other people that do want to share them. For instance I followed the suggestion above of adding all the various Amazon country website links -only the .com one will be in the menu by default but any international Calibre users can just tick the extra ones they want. |
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I wonder if it would be possible to have an option to select a bunch of favorites URLs and open them at the same time in the browser ? That would be very useful... at least for me I often open a site via the plugin, don't find want I want (comments, covers, etc.), go back in calibre, open an other website, and so on. Thanks for your plugin. I use it all the time ! Some URLs I use, for French ebooks : Code:
stip_search_internet_menus = [ ('Le titre sur la Fnac', 'stip_fnac.png', 'http://recherche.fnac.com/Search/SearchResult.aspx?SCat=2&Search={title}', 'utf-8'), ('Le titre sur Amazon.fr', 'stip_amazon.png', 'http://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=nb_ss?__mk_fr_FR=%C5M%C5Z%D5%D1&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords={title}', 'latin-1'), ('Le titre sur Google', 'stip_google.png', 'http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&q={author}+"{title}"', 'utf-8'), ('Le titre sur Wikipedia', 'stip_wikipedia.png', 'http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%E9cial%3ARecherche&search={title}', 'utf-8'), ('Le titre sur Chapitre.com', 'stip_chapitre_com.png', 'http://www.chapitre.com/CHAPITRE/fr/search/Default.aspx?optSearch=BOOKS&titre={title}', 'utf-8', None), (None, None, None, None), ('L\'auteur sur Wikipedia', 'stip_wikipedia.png', 'http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%E9cial%3ARecherche&search={author}', 'utf-8'), (None, None, None, None), ('Images Google pour le livre', 'stip_google.png', 'http://www.google.com/images?q={author}+{title}', 'utf-8', _('Alt+I'))] |
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My current alternative to this was to add the option of keyboard shortcuts for each menu item, so at least you didn't have to move the mouse and right-click etc, though you do have to switch focus back to Calibre first of course. I see from your tweak config above (thanks for those btw) that you hadn't as yet upgraded to 1.3 of the plugin I posted last which supports shortcuts. I guess my question to you is once you do have keyboard shortcut ability whether they would assist you sufficiently to not need the feature? EDIT: Sorry, I just looked closer at your URLs and now see you do have keyboard shortcuts configured so are using 1.3. Guess that answers my question about whether you still want the feature However if others want this feature too (and they respond here soon enough!) then I'm happy to consider it. The difficulty is how to represent this without making it all too complex for everyone who never wants it. One approach that comes to mind is to add a second checkbox column to the grid that you can tick for each row you want to be part of an "Open multiple sites" menu action. This menu action would appear at the bottom of the menu if it had any "members" ticked and would be possible to have it's own keyboard shortcut configured too. As I said if others think it would be useful or have ideas for alternative simpler implementations then speak now... Last edited by kiwidude; 01-05-2011 at 01:07 AM. |
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And when it's too crowded, I just right-click on a tab > Close All Tabs. Let's see what others are saying. Quote:
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Great job, I use I use the search internet all the time !
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01-07-2011, 07:28 PM | #203 |
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Sneak preview of Search the Internet plugin v1.4
Would really appreciate any feedback on screenshots below before I post the plugin itself - anything obvious you see missing, confusing etc.
What is different in this version?
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Nice !
Some questions : I see an "Add" button : How do you create or edit a url/submenu/encoding/etc ? 1 Directly in the row or do you open a new dialog box ? If the latter : 2 About websites icons : do we have to enter the filename, or is it possible to browse and choose an image somewhere on the disk ? 3 Maybe the "Encoding" colum could be a drop down menu ? (All this to avoid manually typing or to do bad copy & paste) Thanks, and again, very nice job ! |
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Part of the issue with that is that sometimes it is only the top-level domain url that has the favicon associated with it. So the user would have to type the domain in which often varies significantly from what you type as a search query. So it all starts getting a bit hard. Another idea I had considered was importing an image via as you say a file chooser dialog and that being placed into the Calibre directory. That could be a simpler compromise... perhaps... Yeah I've been thinking about that one too. My hesitation was not knowing what values to put in the dropdown - is utf-8 and latin-1 sufficient for instance. Right now a new row you add will have the encoding defaulted to utf-8. Thanks again for your feedback - in this case things I had considered but wasn't sure if others would "miss" if I didn't implement. That you bring them up in the first response tells me a few are worth more investigation... Last edited by kiwidude; 01-08-2011 at 12:45 AM. |
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My only concern is the icons too, will that field accept a full path, or is it expecting the icons in a specific location? p.s. It would be cool to have the plugin version number next to the name in the first post in this thread! |
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[EDIT:] Index updated Last edited by kiwidude; 01-08-2011 at 01:54 AM. |
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(You 'll have to check the extension, and maybe dimensions of the file ? I don't know if jpg, or gif are accepted ?) Encoding should be fine with these two values. But if you have a drop down menu, you can always add other values later, if there is a need for it, instead of letting the user guessing what value he should put here (and making typos...) You have a more precise control over the value that should be written here. Last edited by Bertrand; 01-08-2011 at 03:48 AM. |
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Updated Search the Internet v1.4 plugin preview
Thanks to the feedback here I have enhanced the upcoming version with a few more features as shown in the attached screenshots:
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