ideas in Mozilla

The possibility of using Ubiquity in a manner similar to Google Desktop Search Bar (pressing CTRL twice) would be more efficient and easy-to-use and would give a boost to its popularity.

How amazing would it be if you made the firefox address bar into ubiquity. Not only could I go directly to web pages, but do all sort of searches as well as highlight information on any page and do stuff with it in the address bar. The Smart Location Bar is great but this would make it amazing. Also you would not really need the search box anymore because you would be able to do the searches directly from the address bar.

One of the first things I tried to do in Ubiquity was post to twitter with a tiny'd URL. Obviously this is currently not possible with the first word being the command, but something like the below would be truly awesome:
twitter Hello world here's my link (tinyurl http://foo.longurl.com)

Imagine other uses like:
email Hey come to my house here: (map 33 foo st, bar, CA) to Fred

Ubiquity ROCKS.

How about adding the google unit converter? (ie. kg in 15oz = 0.425...kg)

Just like when you use the address bar to input tags for bookmarks and select down to the bookmark you want using tab, it would be useful to be able to do this with Ubiquity too.

For example:

Take the example on the help tutorial, you want to find the weather in Chicago. If you highlight Chicago and hit Ctrl-Space it brings up the Ubiquity bar. Then if you hit w it shows you:

Wikipedia Chicago
weather Chicago

and you have to use the down arrow key (or the mouse) to get to weather Chicago rather than Wikipedia Chicago. If you could just hit tab, and have it move down to weather Chicago, then you could hit enter and off you'd go, rather than having to move your hand away from the main part of the keyboard to use the down arrow key.

The tab method is the way it works for pulling up bookmarks in the address bar, and I think it would be more familiar, and more efficient, to use the same method for Ubiquity.

It would be cool if typing your hotkey when ubiquity is open maked it disappear.
I use a app called quicksilver and thats how it works so i'm kind of used to it and it's also pretty intuitive.

An initial wish-list of commands (apologies if they commands already exist it's just that haven't noticed them). Also, please let me know if there is an formal way of suggesting a command.
1. time in {location} variable being in 12hr or 24hr format http://www.timeanddate.com/
2. directions from {location} to {location} - localised to wherever you are via google map or multimap
3. official {team name} - provides official team site probably via google search
4. hotel {hotel name} - provides review from reputable website like tripadvisor
5. guide {name of town, city} - provides things to see / do / attractions
6. timeout or whatson {name of city} - lists current must see events from Timeout website
7. headlines {name of news agency} - like BBC, CNN etc
8. cnet {name of product, software} - to provide review from cnet website
9. maptrain {name of city} - to provide the tube/train map wherever you want
10. flightstats {name of airport and airline} - list live airport info from http://www.flightstats.com/
it can also restrict by flight number or destination
... more to come

I acknowledge memorising all these commands will take some time, however, its something that become second nature over time.

It's a very good extension, but the last-email command i think it's posible to improve it, it's better that the command shows all new mail, not only the last one

for example if I define long-command-a and long-command-b, i should be able to type "lo", then press TAB and get to "long-command-", at which point I can type "a" or "b" to select the right one.

Change the "link-to-wikipedia" command so that it can work outside (besides working within) the rich text-editing field context. I'd greatly appreciate! Thank you in advance!!

I think that it will be a helpful command using this new service from google.

The command should write on a default notebook on a way like this:

notebook this

or

notebook something that i want to write

Hi,

I'm a user located in Germany. When I looked for the weather in my city
1. temperature is only in Fahrenheit, not in Celsius,
2. only current weather report possible, but weather forecast of the whole day of the next three days can be much more useful.

Hopefully these ideas can be taken into the future version.

Wouldn't it be great to have a command to convert different currencies, or even converting all prices on the page?
That is something i would really like to see in this amazing addon, something like "convert all/this from GBP to DKK" (danish currency) would be great!

I've been thinking about some of the similarities between Ubiquity and Launchy, and I think each project could benefit from the other. A quick overview: Both projects are based on the "type what you want to do" idea, both include capability for creating custom commands and command types.

Since this is the Mozilla section, the Ubiquity suggestion first. The command interpreter used in Launchy is extremely clever, in that it "learns", can recognise commands from any part of the name, and has an effective "Do What I Mean" system. This system can at the least provide inspiration for the one to be used in the final versions of ubiquity.

Entirely separately, a plugin for launchy to enable integration with ubiquity would be a way to make things easier, and would help to avoid hotkey conflicts such as one already mentioned here.

It will be like tag command but doing it on del.icio.us.

for example: del.icio.us (name) (tags)*

I think it will be interesting

I use the desktop keystroke launcher Launchy, and one aspect of its interface that I would like to see incorporated into Ubiquity is the way it matches input against commands. When i type a command into Launchy, it matches that input against all commands that contain those characters in that order, regardless of where in the command name the characters are. For example, when I want to launch Firefox I can type "fx". Similarly, if I want to search Wikipedia I enter "wp". I find that this often makes it easier to select the correct command with the fewest kestrokes.

Thanks for making such a great tool. I love it already!

It would be nice if it were possible to select search results from commands like google and wikipedia using only the keyboard. It's a little jarring to have to switch to a mouse while using a keyboard-based interface, especially since the search results are displayed directly below the commands, which can be selected with just the keyboard.

Two possible ways of doing this:

* Use the tab key to shift focus from selecting commands to selecting search results. Fore example, you would type "g foo" to search for "foo" using google, then hit tab. You could now select from among the search results using the arrow keys.

* Use the tab key to switch between results for whatever command is selected. For example, you would type "g foo" to search for "foo" using google, then hit tab to select the first result, hit tab again to select the next result, and so on.

Thanks!

The email command intrigues me. How about something similar, but for
social websites like Facebook and Myspace, etc. I believe they have
open APIs, so it should be doable. I believe digsby and adium have
added similar features recently.

I'm loving Ubiquity :)

If I want to use a hyphenated command, for example the "add-to-calendar" command, Ubiquity forces me to start typing "add" in order to use it. This seems counter-intuitive to me - I am much more likely to start typing "calendar" (then use the arrow keys to specify whether I mean "add-to" or "check". However, it doesn't work like this, and typing "calendar" will simply start searching google for the word calendar.

My company uses gmail "partnerpage" (company email / calendar / google talk that runs on gmail's platform). it would be nice if Ubiquity saw this as gmail / calendar and interacted with it like it does with regular gmail.

a sample URL: http://partnerpage.google.com/dotprin...
Company email powered by google: http://mail.google.com/a/dotprinter.com