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Konqueror Web Shortcuts for Garage Games

by Mark Joyal · in Torque Game Engine · 05/17/2005 (6:58 pm) · 0 replies

This tidbit isn't exactly rocket science but I figured I would post it up for people to cut and paste for themeselves. Konqueror uses the idea of "web shortcuts" which allow you search various websites from the address bar. ex: 'gg:somequery' in the address bar will search google for somequery. well there are dozens of prebuilt ones ready to be used but I put together two more to provide a quick way to search GarageGames.

Fire up Konqueror and goto Settings->Configure Konqueror
Click on 'Web Shortcuts' and make sure the enabled checkbox is checked
then click 'New'

For Forums Searching:
Search Provider Name: GarageGames Forums
Search URI: http://search.garagegames.com/search?restrict=forums&btnG=Search+GarageGames&ie=&site=GarageGames&output=xml_no_dtd&client=GarageGames&lr=&proxystylesheet=GarageGames&oe=&q=\{@}
URI Shortcuts: ggf
Click 'OK'

add another New one for Resources:
Search Provider Name: GarageGames Resources
Search URI: http://search.garagegames.com/search?restrict=resources&btnG=Search+GarageGames&ie=&site=GarageGames&output=xml_no_dtd&client=GarageGames&lr=&proxystylesheet=GarageGames&oe=&q=\{@}
URI Shortcuts: ggr
Click 'OK'

now you can 'ggf:somequery' and be taken directly to the GG forums search results for that query.