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mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) replied on August 31, 2009 14:25 to the idea "Creating command chains (visually) with drag-and-droppable prompts" in Mozilla:

Interesting idea. I've recently been thinking about how the UI could help support command chaining as well. While mouse-based options are indeed important to consider, I believe it is also important for Ubiquity to make sure purely-keyboard-input also gets a first class experience. I also wonder about this approach's extensibility... what happens to other commands besides map, mail, weather... could they too be the second command in a chain?

A comment on the question "URL nouns not recognised" in Mozilla:

Yes, I suppose that is possible. The maximum number of suggestions is 5 by default, but you can change this in the Ubiquity settings page (chrome://ubiquity/content/settings.xhtml). If you do find that it is simply a lower scoring suggestion, using the tinyurl command a few times (executing those suggestions) will start to make it rank higher. That may help. – mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), on August 23, 2009 05:44

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) replied on August 22, 2009 23:32 to the idea "Ubiquity notifications are too ubiquitous" in Mozilla:

What kind of messages are you receiving? Are they in the browser window or Growl/toaster notifications?

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) replied on August 20, 2009 22:17 to the idea "Chained commands in Ubiquity" in Mozilla:

I've begun a blog series on exploring command chaining—bringing up different considerations which must be made before making command chaining happen. I'd love to get comments on these posts. Here's the first:

http://mitcho.com/blog/projects/explo...

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) replied on August 19, 2009 05:52 to the question "URL nouns not recognised" in Mozilla:

Checking these strings in the nountype tuner (chrome://ubiquity/content/tuner.html) tells me that strings like "http://goo.com/goo" are indeed being accepted by the URL nountype... so i'm not sure where exactly these parses are dying. We will keep investigating.

A comment on the problem "Ctrl + Space no longer opens command window in Ubiquity! (0.5.3)" in Mozilla:

All good. :D – mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), on August 13, 2009 18:00

A comment on the problem "Ctrl + Space no longer opens command window in Ubiquity! (0.5.3)" in Mozilla:

This is a known issue with 0.5.4pre3... it's totally my fault. I now know how to fix this so 0.5.4 may ship with incomplete localizations, but I will try to make sure they will never give XML errors. – mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), on August 13, 2009 18:00

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) replied on August 13, 2009 17:42 to the question "U prompts" in Mozilla:

mjs, you can press the "Don't remind me..." button and it will no longer remind you on that site.

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) set one of mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)'s replies as an official response to "lost core commands after 0.5.4pre3 update" in Mozilla

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) replied on August 13, 2009 17:40 to the question "lost core commands after 0.5.4pre3 update" in Mozilla:

Ubi, try resetting your profile: chrome://ubiquity/content/reset.xhtml

A comment on the problem "Ctrl + Space no longer opens command window in Ubiquity! (0.5.3)" in Mozilla:

Are you using Firefox 3.0? Please try 3.5. – mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), on August 13, 2009 01:34

A comment on the problem "Disabling a command has no effect" in Mozilla:

Ah, t3ddy, thanks for your explanation! Now I see what you mean—you reload the command list and it is marked as enabled again!

We will look into this now. :) – mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), on August 12, 2009 17:55

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) marked one of Heather's replies in Mozilla as useful. Heather replied to the problem "Command editor is broken in 0.5.3 with Firefox 3.0".

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) marked one of adamprocter's replies in Mozilla as useful. adamprocter replied to the question "why gcalculate is the default for "g"?".

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) replied on August 12, 2009 03:09 to the question "How to modify autodetected destination language in Ubiquity's translate command?" in Mozilla:

Try entering "translate this to English" or simply select the text and enter something like "tra to eng". That should work.

A comment on the problem "Ctrl + Space no longer opens command window in Ubiquity! (0.5.3)" in Mozilla:

Yay! – mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), on August 12, 2009 02:58

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) set one of mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)'s replies as an official response to "Ctrl + Space no longer opens command window in Ubiquity! (0.5.3)" in Mozilla

A comment on the problem "Ctrl + Space no longer opens command window in Ubiquity! (0.5.3)" in Mozilla:

Are you by chance using the Menu Editor add-on? There is a known incompatibility with it. Please try disabling it or making sure that the Ubiquity context menu item is enabled. – mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), on August 11, 2009 17:46

mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) replied on August 11, 2009 17:42 to the problem "Ctrl + Space no longer opens command window in Ubiquity! (0.5.3)" in Mozilla:

Hi all—

We just released a beta which we believe fixes this issue, particularly in Firefox 3.0.

http://ubiquity.mozilla.com/xpi/0.5.4...

If it still doesn't work, try going to about:ubiquity, unsubscribing from one feed, restarting, and seeing if Ubiquity is back. If it is, you should be able to safely resubscribe to that feed.

If you continue to have Ubiquity setup issues please let us know, together with what version of Firefox you're using.

A comment on the question "Some verbs were not loaded as they are not compatible with Parser 2." in Mozilla:

Jamie, that sounds like it may not simply be that that command was incompatible... sounds like there's another issue. Could you post the URL for that bit.ly script? I'd like to look into it. – mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine), on August 10, 2009 18:04