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2009-04-06
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Originally Posted by lm2
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?
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.
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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2009-04-06
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Originally Posted by lm2
If you hold down the page after "flicking" it, the page will keep scrolling at maximum speed (which is pretty fast).
To address this, yes, tear's kinetic is faster and less suitable for continuous reading-while-scrolling. But QC's scrolling, while suitable for reading, is horrendously slow for navigating through past clips to find the one you want to read. Whenever I need to read a clip from, say, a week ago, I have to use the notes editor instead of the built-in viewer, because the viewer is so slow. But I don't want to edit, I want to VIEW the old clip!
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2009-04-06
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Originally Posted by BrentDC
That's better, but still not fast enough for my tastes.
If you hold down the page after "flicking" it, the page will keep scrolling at maximum speed (which is pretty fast).
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2009-04-06
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Originally Posted by BrentDC
Yup, that's right. I thought there might be a problem, given that you have to highlight the url.
Is it correct that you highlight the url, and it automatically rips the page title
I did notice the other day, however, that it was possible to highlight text on a page in microb AND tap the url field after and have the url highlighted AS WELL.
When you do that, though, it looks like the highlighted url is the only "actively" highlighted text. And this is how QC treats it, since if you use QC to clip highlighted, all that you get is the url.
Your suggestion to separately highlight the url may have to do, alas.
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2009-04-06
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Originally Posted by lm2
I just went and found a random wikipedia article that was really long (52,000 characters) and clipped the whole thing into QC, and opened it in the viewer. It took 22 seconds to scroll from top to bottom holding the page down. I opened the same file in Tear, not the webpage but the actual clipped .txt file, and it took well over a minute to scroll from top to bottom (because I had to keep flicking it).
That's better, but still not fast enough for my tastes.
I know I could've dragged the normal gtk scrollbar in Tear to go anywhere instantly, but you can switch QCV to gtk scrolling too (but it won't do both).
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2009-04-06
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I'd like to replicate the test. Can you send the wikip link?
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2009-04-06
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Originally Posted by lm2
Yes, the OS supports two text selections at once, PRIMARY and SECONDARY. Quick Clip only reads the Primary selection, because what if you have a webpage selected then switch to another application and select something else then clip that selection? I could concatenate the two selections then clip them together, but I think more times than not that wouldn't be the desired effect. So as of now Quick Clip ignores Secondary.
Yup, that's right. I thought there might be a problem, given that you have to highlight the url.
I did notice the other day, however, that it was possible to highlight text on a page in microb AND tap the url field after and have the url highlighted AS WELL.
When you do that, though, it looks like the highlighted url is the only "actively" highlighted text. And this is how QC treats it, since if you use QC to clip highlighted, all that you get is the url.
Your suggestion to separately highlight the url may have to do, alas.
A possibility would be to sense if both primary and secondary were selected the give a prompt: "What do you want to clip? Primary | Secondary | Both".
That's getting fancy, though!
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2009-04-06
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Perhaps the problem is that tear has both kinetic and gtk and d-pad scrolling at once. Perhaps if QC had all three, the swiftness of the kinetic wouldn't be a big deal.
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2009-04-06
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Originally Posted by lm2
Sure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobcat
I'd like to replicate the test. Can you send the wikip link?
Just about the longest thing I could find!
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