Hi, I use okular for reading academic pdfs & often want to follow the references. Unfortunately these mainly don't have html links just the journal reference e.g. ("De Wals P, Gilquin C, de Maeyer S, Bouckaent A, Noel A, Lechal MF et al Longitudinal study of asymptomatic meningococcal carriage in two Belgian populations of school children. J Infect 1983;6:147-56.") Currently I select this text, copy to clipboard then go to browser and paste into pubmed & up it pops. Would it be possible to add an option to "search with x" that send the highlighted text to a specific search engine in the browser. I can see from other bugs you are hesitant about increasing the complexity of the UI, but for academic researchers it would be fantastic & if configurable could be used to look up with a dictionary website instead. Sniffing around acroread it has a non-configurable context menu option "look up" that sends the text to dictionary.com, which is sort of what I want - but to pubmed instead (and not horrendous bloated acroread)! Thanks! Robin
"Would it be possible to add an option to "search with x" that send the highlighted text to a specific search engine in the browser." Have you tried that nice option that shows in the submenu named "Configure webshortcus"? Because it may seem to be exactly what you want...
Thank you what an amazingly fast response! That does indeed sound _exactly_ like what i need. I don't appear to have that option - presumably because I am using xfce, so may not have compiled (gentoo!) some other part of the KDE desktop. I will install some stuff and see if I can get it working. Thanks,
run $ kcmshell4 ebrowsing from a shell
Clarification: use the context (right-click) menu on the selected text. It should list some default search engines, and also have the "Configure Web Shortcuts" menu item.
Thanks all, All I needed to do was install Konqueror & kcmshell then it all worked. R