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Gustavo replied on February 14, 2009 23:08 to the idea "Ubiquity accessible outside Firefox browser" in Mozilla:

if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right. why half ass something because it's faster? you'll lose client base because the product was released too soon...
I hate it when software gets released too soon (final versions)

Gustavo replied on February 14, 2009 22:58 to the idea "Ubiquity accessible outside Firefox browser" in Mozilla:

heh, love the wallpaper. also, thinking about it a bit more, yeah, that would be cool. but how about instead of a window (i dont know why but i hate having a bunch of windows open) how about a growl type interface like quicksilver or launchy, that isnt a part of firefox?

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i agree with you. if you could make ubiquity a global plugin for several different applications instead of just firefox, that would be fantastic – Gustavo, on February 14, 2009 22:34

Gustavo replied on February 14, 2009 22:19 to the idea "Ubiquity accessible outside Firefox browser" in Mozilla:

i see what youre saying. Personally i think ubiquity would be phenomenal as a separate application and worse than it's current state if it was a pop up window rather than the keyboard combination. i think nicolas doesnt like the fact that if he clicks off the ubiquity window onto the web page after running the ubiquity command, it closes. making it a separate window would solve this issue but would make it more intrusive, IMHO

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no worries. if thats the case, then my previous comment still stands :) – Gustavo, on February 14, 2009 22:10

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also, thats different from what the title of this thread implies... – Gustavo, on February 14, 2009 22:06

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how is that any different from what happens now? you can reposition it?? – Gustavo, on February 14, 2009 22:02

Gustavo replied on February 14, 2009 21:59 to the idea "login to anywebsite.com myusername01 password1234" in Mozilla:

No problem man! Thats what open source is all about. ;)

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How often do you browse the web with a window over your browser? that just takes away from website real estate. This is my personal opinion but if it was a window that was always up on top of the browser, i would definitely not use it at all. too intrusive. – Gustavo, on February 14, 2009 21:56

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oh also, once you register, you dont ever have to put in your username and password again. Ubiquity saves it. You can change your credentials by running the mynotes-setup {username} {password} command...it's all written up on the script page. – Gustavo, on February 14, 2009 19:07

Gustavo replied on February 14, 2009 19:06 to the idea "login to anywebsite.com myusername01 password1234" in Mozilla:

Hey Brenton, I pretty much got my little app up and running. I'll start posting a blog about ubiquity and command structure and all that soon but right now i dont have the time. (valentines day weekend...)
I can also post the php source as well...
It's a quick note taking command that submits your notes in base64 encoding to a mysql (i started with a sqlite and moved to mysql) DB. It supports registration and all that all from ubiquity.

Check it here

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I have to disagree. Ubiquity needs to be built in to the firefox window. If you're browsing full screen and UB is in another window, you arent going to see it anyway...and even if you arent full screen, most websites are built for 1024x768 and most laptops run at 1440 so unless you can fit ubiquity into the difference (which you cant) the content would be covered up to the point where you would still need to either alt-tab to it, or use your mouse to get to it.
You're adding steps to get to ubiquity, which is taking away from the simplicity that it is trying to achieve. – Gustavo, on February 14, 2009 19:01

Gustavo replied on February 14, 2009 13:54 to the idea "Ubiquity accessible outside Firefox browser" in Mozilla:

This would be the ultimate quicksilver style application for PC. I love quicksilver on mac, and would love a similar application that integrates itself into the web. That's a limitation that quicksilver has yet to overcome. And having UB integrate with other applications too?? That would be phenomenal.

@Manveru
basically you want UB to be your browser?? If UB becomes a desktop app within itself, I dont believe that FF would have to be open to use it, however, if you wanted web functionality (like emailing using gmail) you would need FF. When you execute a command, like google search or wiki search (anything other that paste), Ubiquity would most likely open up FF (or your default browser[which should be FF ;)]??)

I want the ability to incorporate UB with any desktop app. While that incorporation would most likely be cut and paste, I would love it to be compatible with outlook or entourage...etc.

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how many non-technical people use firefox without any bars on the top? i'm going to go ahead and say that this would be a limitation for UB. Why cant you just kill the nav bar now anyway and just create a goto command for UB? Problem solved. – Gustavo, on February 14, 2009 13:47

Gustavo replied on February 13, 2009 12:26 to the idea "Make Ubiquity the Address Bar" in Mozilla:

Having ubiquity integrated in the awesome bar would effectively prevent you from being able to email the url, or do whatever with the actual page url that you are viewing because it would replace the url with the ubiquity command that you are currently typing. the only way i can see to solve this problem would be to have a sub-command call the url of the current page... but thats more complicated than just opening up ubiquity and typing "this" in.

Try to simplify it, not complicate it. IMHO Ubiquity needs it's own interface, whether it be another button on the toolbar which then drops down the ubiquity ui or the keyboard command. i like the toolbar button idea for all those 'novices' out there ;)

Gustavo replied on February 13, 2009 01:20 to the idea "Ubiquity should include website logon and credential storing capabilities for corporate intranet site support" in Mozilla:

Im working on a simple notes system for ubiquity... mostly to help me out whenever i want to write a quick note to myself... but i've already integrated multiple user suppot through ubiquity.

just working out some bugs now

Gustavo replied on February 13, 2009 01:18 to the problem "I can't get Weave to connect to my private webdav server." in Mozilla:

personal WEBDAV is disabled in the latest version of weave from what i read... so this wont be a solution. oh well..
i'm going to see if theres a way to view all ubiquity subscriptions from withing the ubiquity command interface (rather than having to go to about:ub).

If this is the case, then why not make a command to sync ub commands to a server? Does anyone know if it's possible to view your command subscriptions from within a command? if so, i will work on putting something together to sync data.

Gustavo replied on February 12, 2009 23:25 to the idea "Ubiquity uniform UI and command structure suggestions" in Mozilla:

Also, to build upon #1:
If a command does require a username and password, ubiquity should prompt for that and then the user should have the option to save it in application.prefs or wherever... this way, the user doesnt need to type in "as {username}" every time. it doesnt even have to save the password, just the username. building in a generic "forget" command can server to erase the saved passwords/logout
EX:
"twitter my twitter message"
UB prompts for username or username and password- option to save
once saved, UB always uses that username until the user types
"twitter forget"

These sub-commands could be visible in the suggestion field(s).

what do you think all?

Gustavo shared an idea in Mozilla on February 12, 2009 20:32:

Integrate a generic "setup" command into ubiquity.

Example:
setup mycommand {username} {password}

This would associate the {username} and {password} to the command 'mycommand' and store the data in Application.prefs

This would be a great way to unify how we store credentials in ubiquity. if a command requires a username and password, just run the setup command and then call those variables from your command whenever you need them.

right now i'm manually doing this. I'm creating a simple mynotes application and have to include a mynotes-setup to store the appropriate data in prefs. it would be nice if i could just skip that step and have it built in.