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Gnome Extension Offers a Shopping Lens We Can Live With 72

sfcrazy writes "The year 2012 has not been very good for Canonical and Ubuntu. The end of the year saw harsh criticism of Ubuntu from bodies like EFF and FSF which accused the operating system of 'data leak,' 'privacy invasion' and adding 'spyware' features. Now, Gnome Shell is also getting online shopping lens. Alan Bell has created a Gnome Shell extension which allows a user to conduct online shopping search right from Gnome's Dash. You can install the extension from this link. Once installed you can start searching for online shopping by hitting 'super' key and then enter your search term. One of the greatest differences between the implementations is who is in control. Gnome's Shopping lens shows how it should have been done in the first place, as it puts the user in control, and not the company whose OS you are using. Bell has explained it very well on his blog."
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Gnome Extension Offers a Shopping Lens We Can Live With

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  • GNOME Shell (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31, 2012 @03:46AM (#42431087)

    Gnome Shell's shopping lens can be intuitively accessed by anyone! Just press your windows key three times quickly and then Ctrl-S, then shuffle through the windows until you find the lens interface! Click it and a whizzy animation will move the input box to a random monitor. Enter your first letter! A whizzy animation will confirm your letter's input and close the window. Repeat the process for the second letter of your search term until it is complete! Congratulations, you just netted yourself a bargain!

  • by Osgeld ( 1900440 ) on Monday December 31, 2012 @04:12AM (#42431153)

    where opening a browser to shop the entire world from our toilet is just too much?

  • by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31, 2012 @07:24AM (#42431647)

    are you some kind of commie?

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