Add custom search buttons in Gnome Shell overview

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Gnome Shell lets you search Google or Wikipedia directly from the overview. It is cool. Isn’t it? Did you ever wonder about how can you add your own search providers? It is not that hard.

With little effort you can add your own search providers.

Search buttons in overview

The search providers (or buttons as we say) are simple xml files which follow the open search specifications, present under “/usr/share/gnome-shell/open-search-providers/”. They follow the following format,

<OpenSearchDescription xmlns=”http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/”>
<ShortName>Name</ShortName>
<Description>Description</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
<Image width=”16″ height=”16″>data:image/x-icon;base64,ImageData</Image>
<Url type=”text/html” method=”GET” template=”http://yoursearchprovider/search?q={searchTerms}”/>
</OpenSearchDescription>

 

You need to replace the following words with the appropriate ones,

Name: This will appear in the overview
Description: A short description
ImageData: It contains the favicon. You can get the data from favicon here.
Provider: It depends on different search engines. To get the URL, you may perform a search in your search engine and then replace your search term with {searchTerms}

Here is one I made for duckduckgo,

<OpenSearchDescription xmlns=”http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/”>
<ShortName>DuckDuckGo</ShortName>
<Description>DuckDuckGo Search</Description>
<InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
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<Url type=”text/html” method=”GET” template=”http://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}”/>
</OpenSearchDescription>

 

After changing necessary parts, you can save the file with an extension .xml and place it in “/usr/share/gnome-shell/open-search-providers/” (you will need root permissions). Then you need to restart Gnome shell (“Alt+F2″, enter “r” and press enter). Now the button will appear in the overview. Simple :D

Search with DuckDuckGo

If you have any difficulties or suggestions, feel free to comment.

I’ve also made some more XML files which you can try right away :D

More search providers

                 

  • ScionicSpectre

    Awesome.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002633224560 Moez Bouhlel

    well, your tutos seem very awsone and simple to learn by beginners like me, i’m waiting for more tuto :) just keep the same way you write