Re: Bug#251872: konqueror: I can't search from location bar
I noticed this post from early June, and thought I'd add my 2 cents.
A quick recap:
> Alejandro Exojo wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> If I try to look for a word using a search engine (like google for
>>> example) by writting a word in the location bar, it tries to load the
>>> page www.<word>.com, which is a recent behaviour (it works properly one
>>> month ago, I think).
>
> > The last update of konqueror, was on 2004-04-11, so probably you changed
> > something in the configuration.
>
> That's what I thought first, but I have the same problem with a fresh new
> system user who just logged in.
>
> > I'm sorry, but I can't confirm this behaviour. With the default
> > configuration, writing a word in the location bar, and pressing return,
> > says that the URL is wrong
>
I can confirm this problem on Libranet (v2.8.1, relatively fresh install,
but updated w/ KDE 3.2 packages). It seems to be the default. If there's a
great difference between Libranet and vanilla-Debian that I'm not taking into
consideration, my apologies (to the best of my knowledge, they share the same
repositories, do they not?). Just thought I'd confer with the original
poster's situation.
>
> > Please, tell us exactly which string are you typing, and what is your
> > configuration: Settings -> Configure konqueror -> Web Shortcuts.
>
Unlike the original poster, I looked here and found that the Search Engine was
set to 'none'. Switching it to Google (or another good engine) worked.
However, I've never had to do this before (on my previous non-Debian-based
distro). An oddity.
Again - my 2 cents.
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Matt Cahill
m dash cahill at rogers dot com
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