[smc-discuss] [CoFSUG] Should gnome web browser use google as its default web browser?

[shravan aras]

My bad, you are right forcing duckduckgo would not solve the problem.
We need to give users a generic option for open search.

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Praveen A <pravi.a at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2012/3/24 shravan aras <123.shravan at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Praveen I have cooked up a patch for epiphany which uses duckduckgo as
>> the default search engine.
>> The patch is attached with this mail as a .path file. Kindly apply it
>> using the "patch" command.
>> Bellow are some details which will aid you in applying/compiling the
>> source code.
>
> Shravan,
>
> Thanks for this patch, but that was not the point, because you can
> change it via dconf anyway.
> Change the key org.gnome.epiphany.keyword-search-url from
> dconf-editor, which is much easier than rebuilding.
>
> The first part in your patch you commented out should instead remain
> the same and change the gsettings default instead for people who want
> to use a different default say startpage.com or lxquick.com
>
> We don't want to take out the available choice and force duckduckgo.
> If you can find this out then submit it as a patch to the same bug
> report.
>
> Praveen
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