I’m going to start looking for a new laptop. So if you have suggestions matching my criteria, please comment! Thanks 🙂
It happens all the time: you’re reading a very interesting page and you think you should share it on Twitter. So all you want to do is to type your tweet, include the URI and post it. This should be very, very fast. Unfortunately, I often found that Twitter takes a load of time. Especially, if all you want is to tweet…
Also see how to add DuckDuckGo as a search engine in Gnome Shell built-in web search.
Take one of the xml for DuckDuckGo in the OpenSearch standard, here’s mine:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
<ShortName>DuckDuckGo</ShortName>
<Description>Encrypted Duck Duck Go with encrypted Google Suggest</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image height="16" width="16" type="image/x-icon">https://duckduckgo.com/favicon.ico</Image>
<Url type="text/html" method="get" template="https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}"/>
<Url type="application/x-suggestions+json" template="https://encrypted.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&q={searchTerms}"/>
<Url rel="suggestions" type="application/x-suggestions+xml" template="https://encrypted.google.com/complete/search?q={searchTerms}&client=ie8&mw={ie:maxWidth}&sh={ie:sectionHeight}&rh={ie:rowHeight}&inputencoding={inputEncoding}&outputencoding={outputEncoding}"/>
</OpenSearchDescription>
and save as /usr/share/gnome-shell/search_providers/duckduckgo.xml for instance on Debian Wheezy. Now, refresh Gnome Shell (by doing alt+f2, ‘r’) and whenever you search for someting in the Shell’s Activity overview, you have the possibility to search the Web with DuckDuckGo.
I’m now running Gnome3 from a USB stick and it’s great! There are many, many improvements over the previous version. You should try it (however be careful, since it’s not yet packaged in debian or other distributions, you may be frustrated and have to be patient!)
