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#72
Originally Posted by lm2 View Post
I was thinking over the weekend about the probably little-noticed del.icio.us status bar plugin (see also post #8 in that thread). I really like this little thing. But it lacks a crucial element: you can't save text to delicious, just the name at the top of a webpage (e.g, for this page this would be, "Quick Clip 0.2 Released! - Page 7...") and the url of the page (which you highlight before tapping the plugin).

Conversely, the thing I miss the most with QC is the ability to stamp clipped text with the url associated with the page whose text I'm saving.

Now, I'm not saying that QC should be integrated with the delicious plugin (although that, if it could be done, would be KILLER!). I'm just wondering if there is any transparent coding in the delicious plugin that could help you add a url stamp to text clipped from a website. Clearly, this would probably only work for microb, as I think I tried the delicious plugin with tear and it didn't work. (It saved the highlighted url, but failed to rip the page's title.)

Anyway, just some random thoughts about possible ways of expanding QC's functionality.
I looked briefly at the code, but my C skills are pretty weak (nonexistent, actually), and wasn't able to glean much. Is it correct that you highlight the url, and it automatically rips the page title?

Well, the gtk_application_name is set to the page title (just prefixed with "Web - "), and that is probably attainable somehow. On the other hand, the current page url is probably not broadcast by Microb (that's a guess!) so doing as you suggest is probably impossible, or at least above my abilities.

I think the best solution is probably to just clip in the url separately.
 

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