Unanswered ideas in Mozilla

As we can digg page thanks to ubiquity, it could be nice to be able to send it to facebook or myspace (bulletin / blog ...). Actually be able to do like the addthis button.

I will love to add elements to Google Note by a little Ubiquity command-line.
Simply add a link and create a note on an already created notepad !

go to facebook, go to hotmail, go to gmail, go to yahoo, go to amazon, go to cnet, go to dpreview. i think it would be nice if Ubiquity could have a list of common websites (and their abbreviations) which can be updated by the community. the user would just type "go to <website name="true">". if there are more than one website with similar titles, the user could be shown both websites and be allowed to choose which one to go to.</website>

The define works fine, but how about something like "define <word> with wiktionary in <language>" so that you don't go to answers.com by default? it should also recognize rearrangements, i.e.: "define <word> in <language> with wiktionary". if the person typed "define <word> with answers" it would go to answers.com</word></language></word></language></word>

When you've selected a piece of text, your eyes are generally focused on that part of the screen. So why not have Ubiquity appear above, below, to the right or left etc in relation to what's selected so that you don't need to refocus your attention to the upper left every time. Imagine if a context menu appeared at the same spot of the screen regardless of what you selected or clicked :P

It would be really useful if, in addition to showing the current weather, you could ask for a certain unit of time in advance and get the forecast of that time. It would even be even cooler, if you could do something like...

weather (location) (some time in the future) (frequency of forecast)

and maybe it would be able to give the weather forecast in increments of time from now until the specified date. That might be overdoing it because I don't necessarily know where that data would come from, but at least the forecasting would be a great addition.

The email command currently brings you to the Gmail compose page. It would be great if you could add a word to the command line that would automatically send the email without taking you to that page. Or maybe a prefix. Maybe 'auto-email' or adding 'auto' to the end of an 'email' command line.

Ex: auto-email this to dad

Ex: email this to dad auto(matically)

How about having the "last-email" command show also the date and the time of the last email? Now the program displays some lines of the last unread email. How about displaying the last received email (or conversation), may it be read or unread?
Thanks

I would like to remove native commands. Mostly the search commands. It is currently easier to use the mycroft search bar, and the ubiq 'search' command. The other engine specific commands are a pain. I would like to be able to remove them.

Commands need context!
Especially as the number of commands grows there needs to be some standard way of assigning context to a command. By context I mean that the commands that come up first on the list when you start typing should be those relevant to the webpage you are currently looking at. And some commands could be only avaliable when you are at certain sites.

For example if I just mapped a hotel in San Francisco on google maps an then type "find chinese restaurants" into Ubiquity it should look for chinese restaurants around the hotel I'm looking at now. However if I'm looking at my email and type "find april" into Ubiquity it should run a different command and bring up all my emails that are from april. In addition you could have a "find" command without context which simply searches the web with a preferred search engine.

There needs to be some way of handling multiple commands with the same name.

Just looking through my bookmarklets and some of these commands may make good Ubiquity verbs.

jash: JavaScript Shell - http://www.billyreisinger.com/jash/
zap: Remove page colours, flash, etc: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarkle...
word-stats: Useful SEO stuff: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarkle...
referrer: javascript:document.location=document.referrer

It could support the development of new commands and apis, if the definition of the nouns (in Ubiquity terminology) could reference semantic databases, such as freebase.com.

A scenario could look like this:
- one is looking for a way to translate programming code from one programming language to another (just to take an example, given that such a tool exists)

This could mean for Ubiquity:
- a noun is implemented in a way that it refers autotmatically to a semantic database, e.g. that a noun is defined as a programming language.

- Freebase contains a Type definition for a programming language, and the different database entries have the tag, which makes them visible as a programming language. (e.g. http://www.freebase.com/view/en/progr...)

- a command refers to this nouns and implements a function
"translate_code <text> (from) <programming> (to) <programming>"

Around this given set of terms a more specialized set of commands is possible, which puts more meaning to the arguments usable in the browser.

Another advantage could be that the definition of terms and categories is "outsourced" to another expert knowledge source.

Unfortunately my JavaScript coding skills are very bad, so I want to share this this idea to get your feedback.
</programming></programming></text>

the information loaded in the mashups should remain loaded when the ubiquity window is closes, so that when the user types control+space there is no need to load from the web again.

ExtJS is great JavaScript library, which adds almost window management API for Webbrowser.
Including it into Ubiquity would add possibility to take browsing and managing of dynamic content into another level of user experience!

Simple mockup below:

Touch is more excelent device than mice. Did you know touchscreen devices like Samsung Q1 or Latitude XT, it will be great to create "ubi-touch-quity" with circle menu and all of ubiquity commands.

When you'd like to surf and an add-on has to be updated, you get slapped in the face with a huge update-dialog. couldn't this be a little more subtle, like the "ff has blocked a popup"-message, but with the update notification? that way i can surf while updating and restart ff later when i'm done.

edit: forgot to say: i'm using the latest ff3 on ubuntu hardy. i don't know if the description above also applies for window$ or ma(c)s...

I list all my contacts in Gmail by <lastname>. This presents a problem with the email command. The email command apparently only searches at the beginning of the text, with no option for a wildcard search anywhere in the contact name. It would be much easier if the contact search would allow me to search anywhere in the name.

For instance, if I have Smith, John, and I have 3 Smith contacts, but only 1 John contact, I should be able to type "email hello to john", instead of having to type "email hello to smith".

Another useful command of google es cinema search given a actual movie and a zip or city.

The service is in http://www.google.com/movies

A command like: cinema (movie) (city) will be pretty cool.In addition google/movies is a critic/review search tool.

Would it be possible to add Ubiquity to the toolbar, for instance, underneath the address bar? Or would this make it too cluttered? As you type into it the options Ubiquity give you could appear much in the same way that most browsers predict the website address? It would allow much better integration with the browser and would remove the need to type ctrl-space or options-space to open up Ubiquity.

If I want to email someone, an easy way to do it is to do it through Ubiquity. However, Ubiquity will by default add a link to the page I'm currently on. What if I don't want to do this, I just want to email something completely different?
How about the "email" command just starts a blank email, while to send a link, "email this" or "email page" or "email link" will include the link.