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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

This is an enhancement request rather than a real bug.

Since version 0.23+15.04.20150515-0ubuntu1, webbrowser-app comes with a
default list of search engines that are installed system-wide, and that
can be supplemented/overridden by locally installed OpenSearch
description files.

This list is global, thus for a search engine to be part of it it has to adapt its search results to the user’s locale.
It might be desirable to have per-country/per-locale lists of search engines, rather than just a global one. There could be a fallback list for locales which don’t specify a custom list.

See e.g. what chromium does:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/components/search_engines/template_url_prepopulate_data.cc

** Affects: webbrowser-app
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: Triaged

** Changed in: webbrowser-app
       Status: New => Triaged

** Changed in: webbrowser-app
   Importance: Undecided => Wishlist

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1458453

Title:
  Default search engines list can’t be customized per locale/country

Status in Web Browser App:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  This is an enhancement request rather than a real bug.

  Since version 0.23+15.04.20150515-0ubuntu1, webbrowser-app comes with
  a default list of search engines that are installed system-wide, and
  that can be supplemented/overridden by locally installed OpenSearch
  description files.

  This list is global, thus for a search engine to be part of it it has to adapt its search results to the user’s locale.
  It might be desirable to have per-country/per-locale lists of search engines, rather than just a global one. There could be a fallback list for locales which don’t specify a custom list.

  See e.g. what chromium does:
  https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/components/search_engines/template_url_prepopulate_data.cc

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