Qownnotes: Change the default search engine
Expected behaviour
Possibility to change the default search engine when you "right click" --» "search text of the web"
Actual behaviour
It open text in duckduck go
Suggestion
Add other search engines that respect privacy... Startpage, Qwant, etc
bepolymathe
All 19 comments
Thank you for your suggestion.
pbek
on 5 Aug 2017
😃
bepolymathe
on 5 Aug 2017
I am currently working on this issue , what search engine should i add ?
ron-popov
on 1 Oct 2017
Awesome. @ron-popov! I guess DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing and Yahoo would be plenty.
If you really want to go crazy you could also let the users add their own url... ;)
pbek
on 1 Oct 2017
Yes I would be great to add own url (qwant , startpage , ecosia, etc)
bepolymathe
on 2 Oct 2017
17.10.6
- you can now select different search engines for searching text in notes in the
General settings (for issue Issue #661,
thank you @ron-popov)
pbek
on 21 Oct 2017
Oh, thanks ;-)
bepolymathe
on 21 Oct 2017
@ron-popov did a great job!
There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?
pbek
on 21 Oct 2017
17.10.6 allows me to select search engine, and they work as intended. It's great to have this option. However, @bepolymathe was after some other privacy–oriented engines, such as startpage.
ludenticus
on 21 Oct 2017
Just poste the search URLs and the names and I will add them.
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pbek
on 21 Oct 2017
According to the startpage support center, the URL to their search engine is the following:
https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=%s
Is this the kind of search URLs you need?
ludenticus
on 21 Oct 2017
ludenticus
on 21 Oct 2017
Yes, it works very well! Thank you very much @ron-popov . DDG, Qwant and Startpages is a great cocktail for the user to choose from...
If we want to go further, another option, for more specific needs, would be to be able to directly complete a field with the desired URL. For example, I am an historian or economist and I have a search engine specific to my job... I could add it.
It would be useful to me, but I don't know if it's useful to everyone.
bepolymathe
on 22 Oct 2017
If we want to go further, another option, for more specific needs, would be to be able to directly complete a field with the desired URL
@bepolymathe, don't forget that you could do all that and more with the scripting engine... ;)
pbek
on 22 Oct 2017
Yes it's true; -) You're really going to make me work on this one day...
bepolymathe
on 22 Oct 2017
17.10.7
- added new search engines Qwant and Startpage and reordered the list in the General settings
pbek
on 23 Oct 2017
There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?
pbek
on 23 Oct 2017
Tested. Working
ludenticus
on 24 Oct 2017
Great, thank you for testing!
pbek
on 24 Oct 2017
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I am currently working on this issue , what search engine should i add ?