FS#14185 - {archweb_pub} OpenSearch support for the web site

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Bla (madhatter) - Saturday, 11 April 2009, 10:03 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 09 February 2010, 03:16 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Web Sites
Status Closed
Assigned To Paul Mattal (paul)
Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

OpenSearch[1] support for this site,
so that the Arch homepage would provide one for package search and also one for the AUR (the wiki already supports it)
With that one could for example in Firefox add a Search Engine for packages with two clicks.

http://www.opensearch.org/Home
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Tuesday, 09 February 2010, 03:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Saturday, 11 April 2009, 22:11 GMT
We'd be much more likely to support something like this if patches were provided to the AUR (PHP) and archweb_pub (Django) git projects.
Comment by Bla (madhatter) - Friday, 17 April 2009, 09:10 GMT
I'm not really familiar with git - But I made the OpenSearch xml files needed (attached to this comment)
The only thing needed is to upload them, and add this between the "head"-tags (and edit the stuff that is in brackets of course)

<link rel="search"
type="application/opensearchdescription+xml"
href="http://[static dir]/opensearch-[aur/main].xml"
title="[AUR ]Package search" />

Suggestions won't work with that of course but I don't think they're necessary.
   opensearch-aur.xml (0.5 KiB)
   opensearch-main.xml (0.5 KiB)
Comment by Dusty Phillips (Dusty) - Tuesday, 09 June 2009, 15:02 GMT
What would be the way to test they've been set up properly?
Comment by Bla (madhatter) - Tuesday, 09 June 2009, 21:51 GMT
Just look in Firefox (I'm not familiar with any issues across browsers who support OpenSearch) if there's an option to add it in the search engine list,
it should be similiar to the one you get offered on Wikipedia for example (you may have to delete the old entry before)
You can also experiment with a local dummy html file.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 07 February 2010, 16:00 GMT
I have this implemented locally.
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Tuesday, 09 February 2010, 03:16 GMT
I'm going to close this out as I just implemented it for the website, but wanted to give you notice that you might want to open a new report for the AUR and/or send this off to the aur-dev mailing list.

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