Wike: Wikipedia Reader for the GNOME Desktop (github.com)

submitted 4 months ago by sag@lemm.ee to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

I'm just wondering what that use case is.

The speed of opening a standalone app instead of opening a browser and searching through bookmarks. Also I think this app is nice to install for someone who's very unfamiliar with computers.

[-] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

Fair enough.

For me, I just set up Wikipedia as one of the search engines, with the search shortcut wiki (you can change this to anything you want) and so typing wiki [keyword] in the address bar will do the same thing as searching site:wikipedia.org [keyword].

No need to mess with bookmarks and I don't have to open up the page (or an app) & then search.

Not sure if you can do this with Chromium-based browsers, but I use a Firefox fork and it's pretty damned easy on it.