Web Multi-control applet for GNOME

About

This applet is a replacement for the web-control applet in GNOME. The web-control applet is very useful, but it has one major disadvantage -- it does not resize to fit smaller panels than the default. I wrote this applet to fit smaller panels, and the menu panel in particular.

In addition to feeding URLs to your GNOME URL handler, web-multi will feed URLs to Google for searching. It also has some user interface tweaks that make it more convenient for heavy use. In particular, the focus is set to the text-entry box whenever the switch-function button or the clear button are pressed, which saves you a mouse click and lets you get right to typing your URL or search.

Screenshot and Download

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Installation and use

Download and unpack the archive. You must have pygtk and pygnome installed to use this applet. Edit the makefile so that the paths are appropriate for your system; if you have GNOME installed by your system's package manager (in /usr), they will probably be correct already. You can then install the applet by running make install as root, and add the applet to your panel using the panel menu.

TODO

User configurability; add the ability to format queries for user-defined cgi URLs (search Freshmeat, for example).

Bugs

I don't know of any.

License and NO WARRANTY

This software is available under the GNU Public License. There is no warranty of any kind; use at your own risk.