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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Some apps may want to trigger a web search in the browser. Right now
there is the possibility to do something like

Qt.openUrlExternally("https://google.com?q=foobar";)

However, the search engine might be blocked in some countries or not be
the user's favourite one. It would be great if we could do something
like:

Qt.openUrlExternally("websearch://foobar")

I haven't fully thought the websearch:// scheme through yet, so probably
this requires a case study on the used uri scheme and/or query
arguments. Maybe there's some standard uri scheme for this? Or maybe
even just something like http://foobar?

** Affects: tagger
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Michael Zanetti (mzanetti)
         Status: Confirmed

** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: tagger
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1464390

Title:
  Feature request: allow invoking a websearch using the configured
  search engine

Status in Tagger:
  Confirmed
Status in webbrowser-app package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Some apps may want to trigger a web search in the browser. Right now
  there is the possibility to do something like

  Qt.openUrlExternally("https://google.com?q=foobar";)

  However, the search engine might be blocked in some countries or not
  be the user's favourite one. It would be great if we could do
  something like:

  Qt.openUrlExternally("websearch://foobar")

  I haven't fully thought the websearch:// scheme through yet, so
  probably this requires a case study on the used uri scheme and/or
  query arguments. Maybe there's some standard uri scheme for this? Or
  maybe even just something like http://foobar?

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