Dafydd ([info]dgh) wrote,
@ 2008-03-25 12:49:00
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Control-click
The fact that you can use Control-click to open URLs in Gnome Terminal is not very discoverable. (Just clicking doesn't do anything; perhaps this is to avoid breaking text selection?) I can't remember how I found out about it myself, but somebody I pointed it out to recently was delighted that they didn't have to use the context menu to open URLs, so I think it deserves wider publicity.

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-25 05:36 pm UTC (link)
yes we need to kill the abbundant reliance of context menu! :).

Simple idea
Maybe just show the shortcut in the context menu as in done in application menu's (Ie,Edit->Undo shows CTRL+Z)

Fancy controversial/bloat idea
Instead of underline on hover. We could draw a "context menu/action bar" on hover+delay? Still a bit icky if requires doing "Move mouse, aim, stop, click" twice.

I have no skills though ;)

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-25 05:55 pm UTC (link)
Wow...thanks. :) It definitely needs some kind of hint on the UI...maybe a tooltip?

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(Anonymous)
2008-03-25 05:57 pm UTC (link)
Ah yes, the famous "dingus click". Unfortunately there's no standard way to reveal 'click shortcuts' to the user, web browsers have the same problem (you can usually ctrl-click, alt-click and/or shift-click on links there too, with varying results). Might be nice to try and think of one though.

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Thank you for this.
(Anonymous)
2008-03-25 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Didn't realize this could be done. :)

- dgoodwin

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[info]athrun.myopenid.com
2008-03-25 06:47 pm UTC (link)
thanks for sharing that trick :)

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Impressive!
(Anonymous)
2008-03-25 08:04 pm UTC (link)
Wow daf, thanks for sharing this. It really saves quite a few seconds every day! Jordi

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Take a note from Outlook
(Anonymous)
2008-03-25 08:54 pm UTC (link)
Do what MS Outlook does:

Have it look like a link (which it does -- underlining on hover is good enough)
Have a tooltip pop up and say "Ctrl-Click to visit this link".

Immensely more discoverable (I never knew about ctrl-click) and quick n easy to implement

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oops
(Anonymous)
2008-03-25 09:25 pm UTC (link)
Oops, I have been copying url's to a browser till now...

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Double-clic and Klipper
[info]muadda
2008-03-26 12:33 am UTC (link)
I use double-click on URL in Gnome Terminal and Klipper automatically proposes me to open it in Firefox or another browser.

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Re: Double-clic and Klipper
[info]dgh
2008-03-26 05:41 pm UTC (link)
Hmm, double-click doesn't do anything here. Is this something klipper-specific?

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Re: Double-clic and Klipper
[info]muadda
2008-03-28 11:06 am UTC (link)
Yes, double-click in Gnome Terminal just selects and copies the link in the clipboard.

Klipper detects a change in the clipboard and detects an URL and so proposes to open it with a browser. It works with any application that uses the clipboard, not only Gnome Terminal.

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Diddorol Iawn!!!
(Anonymous)
2008-04-08 09:07 pm UTC (link)
Diddorol iawn, Dafydd!! Beth am gymryd ychydig o eiliadau i ffonio gartre - neu anfon e-bost atom ni gyda dy rif ffon a chyfeiriad fel y gallem gadw mewn cysylltiad a ti?!!

Llawer o gariad,

mam

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