Google Desktop Finally...

[edmondt]

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8313017510.html

Is it really that good?

[jdrodrig]

Thanks for the heads up!

[hobbes_ba]

Does It works on feisty 64 bits?

[BOBSONATOR]

I just installed, but dont know how to run it.

[Canis familiaris]

HA! There's also a repository for Ubuntu.
I came across the news here:
http://ubuntucat.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/google-has-a-linux-repository-cool/

Here are Ubuntu specific instructions on setting up the repository. (http://www.google.com/linuxrepositories/ubuntu704.html)

[Canis familiaris]

But before trying Google's desktop search, i'll certainly try Beagle.

[FuturePilot]

Interesting. Searching inside files:o

[Extreme Coder]

Beagle,Tracker and Strigi just got company ;)

[igknighted]

Beagle,Tracker and Strigi just got company ;)

I really don't see what is so great about this. It will probably run via Wine like Picasa does, it won't integrate like Strigi, and it isn't open source... just because it says Google everybody wants it?

[DC@DR]

I really don't see what is so great about this. It will probably run via Wine like Picasa does, it won't integrate like Strigi, and it isn't open source... just because it says Google everybody wants it?
It runs natively in Linux, not via Wine. There's a .deb for it here: http://desktop.google.com/linux/. I just installed and tried it, works flawlessly and seems to be less resource-consuming than Beagle. Damn, love it, and Google rocks! :popcorn:

[Footissimo]

I really don't see what is so great about this. It will probably run via Wine like Picasa does, it won't integrate like Strigi, and it isn't open source... just because it says Google everybody wants it?

It doesn't run via Wine and it seems to be integrating as much as I'd like a desktop search application to.

Thankyou to Google - good to see linux being supported better =)

[stmiller]

Works in Feisty 64bit here.

$ sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture googledesktop-blahblah.deb

[jrusso2]

I don't see whats so great about it. You don't even get the widgets just the search. And google desktop search has a lot of privacy issues. There is beagle for an open alternative.

If anything from google desktop would be useful it would be some of the widgets

[WalmartSniperLX]

I find it rather nifty. ;)

[mthakur2006]

i prefer beagle; infact, if there were a windows version of it, I will probably use that instead of GoogleDesktop on our Desktop pc. :popcorn:

[Polygon]

so this is the start of google's little spree of releasing their programs for linux.

Ill try it out and see which one i prefer, but still its nice to have some big companies supporting other operating systems other then mac/windows

[Circus-Killer]

to be honest, i woulda preferred to have seen a google talk client for linux. one thing i cant stand is the fact that pidgin STILL does not have voice support. after how many years of development, im wondering if voice conversations will EVER arrive in linux. the only hope i have now is that sometime in the future google will wake up and create a linux version of their google talk client.

anyways, just my opinion. i never liked google desktop, even for windows. never had much use for it. but its good that it is available for linux. just would like to see the google talk application being made for linux.

[HotShotDJ]

I looked around the Google Desktop site and I could not find the license for this. How much of my privacy and freedom must I give up to use this? I'm not saying that Google Desktop is a bad thing or even that their license is bad (although F/OSS license is always my preference!), I just want to know BEFORE I install it.

[Xanatos Craven]

Hm. It's a nice gesture that Google's actually going this far to even acknowledge Linux's existence, but I don't see the point with this one. We already have Beagle and Tracker, which I can at least use from Gnome's ever-handy deskbar applet, unlike this thing.

Picasa and Google Earth are cool enough, but Google Desktop, at least on Linux, is late to the party.

And I'd much rather see voice/webcam support in Pidgin first than a Google Talk port. Having to have a bunch of IM clients open all at once is kind of irritating.

[Circus-Killer]

Hm. It's a nice gesture that Google's actually going this far to even acknowledge Linux's existence, but I don't see the point with this one. We already have Beagle and Tracker, which I can at least use from Gnome's ever-handy deskbar applet, unlike this thing.

Picasa and Google Earth are cool enough, but Google Desktop, at least on Linux, is late to the party.

And I'd much rather see voice/webcam support in Pidgin first than a Google Talk port. Having to have a bunch of IM clients open all at once is kind of irritating.

i agree. i would also like to see such things in gaim. but as i said previously, gaim has taken 3 years to introduce pidgin 2.0, which has virtually no improvements. it looks slightly cleaner, and some things have changed a little. but after 3 years....its kinda sad. they are making absolutely no progress. i've resided to the fact that there are only 2 ways that we will see google talk voice support in linux. the first, google creates a linux client. the second option is for me to write an IM program from scratch. as for gaim/pidgin, i dont believe there will be voice or video support for the next 3 to 5 years at least.

[DC@DR]

Pidgin/Gaim sucks so much, but I have to use it since there's no other way to talk with my friends on Yahoo! Messenger (Now Yahoo offers webmessenger, so I'm gradually abandoning Pidgin/Gaim). Damn it, like Circus-Killer said above, we've seen no progress at all in Pidgin/Gaim for several years!. Come on, people, can't we just make a better IM client with multi-protocol support? :-(

[richardjennings]

Ive just installed google desktop. I used the .deb version found at desktop.google.com/linux

It took me a few minutes to realize it installs to /opt/google/desktop/

Seems to be working well.

[wildkarde]

Does It works on feisty 64 bits?

Yeah, i second.

Someone please try to install this on 64bit.


Works in Feisty 64bit here.

$ sudo dpkg -i --force-architecture googledesktop-blahblah.deb

Thank you!!!

[Polygon]

Pidgin/Gaim sucks so much, but I have to use it since there's no other way to talk with my friends on Yahoo! Messenger (Now Yahoo offers webmessenger, so I'm gradually abandoning Pidgin/Gaim). Damn it, like Circus-Killer said above, we've seen no progress at all in Pidgin/Gaim for several years!. Come on, people, can't we just make a better IM client with multi-protocol support? :-(

whats wrong with pidgin? it does everything that i want it to do, except maybe voice chat (which no linux im program supports right now), things like tapioca work with the google open source voip library that google talk uses

and ive heard that pidgin is working on getting voice support, i wouldn't imagine it would be that hard to get at least google talk voip working as google released the library a long time ago....

[Old Pink]

It's been installing for around 30 minutes...?

[Polygon]

hmm. Thats bad.... i would try killing gdebi but that might screw things up, it installed in like 5 seconds for me

[ButteBlues]

Using it now. I like it a lot actualy. :)

All except the file browser dialog when adding additional folders to search.

[_simon_]

no matter where I tel lit to index it's not doing anything, am I doing something wrong?

Edit - seems to be working now.

Do I have to specify a certain folder or could I ask it to do /home and it index all files regardless of folders?

[jiminycricket]

Pidgin/Gaim sucks so much, but I have to use it since there's no other way to talk with my friends on Yahoo! Messenger (Now Yahoo offers webmessenger, so I'm gradually abandoning Pidgin/Gaim). Damn it, like Circus-Killer said above, we've seen no progress at all in Pidgin/Gaim for several years!. Come on, people, can't we just make a better IM client with multi-protocol support? :-(


Kopete?

[Old Pink]

hmm. Thats bad.... i would try killing gdebi but that might screw things up, it installed in like 5 seconds for me

Killed, purged pending installations, tried again, nothing, re-downloaded .deb, nothing, tried with the repositories, nothing.

Going to reboot now. :(

[DalekClock]

I hope there's a deskbar to search from. I can't check right now as I'm at school and am stuck with Windows. I'll check it out later.

About time this arrived! Can't wait 'till they add the Sidebar, I always used that in Windows.

[ButteBlues]

I hope there's a deskbar to search from. I can't check right now as I'm at school and am stuck with Windows. I'll check it out later.

About time this arrived! Can't wait 'till they add the Sidebar, I always used that in Windows.
No need for a deskbar. Just tap "ctrl" twice.

[Old Pink]

Rebooted, tried, nothing, rebooted, killed GDM, logged straight into terminal, no GUI and tried installing there, nothing.

Why won't this install? Will try .rpm now

[Old Pink]

Tried the .rpm - didn't hang, process finished, but can't find it anywhere. Looking now...

This is the most troublesome installation ever!

edit

Found in /opt/google/desktop

FINALLY!

[business.geek]

I tried restarting my system and it loaded automatically

[Kayne]

I installed it without any problems and well... it will replace Beagle for me.
It doesn't need as much memory as Beagle and the indexing doesn't take much time. Also tapping twice on ctrl to search for something works like a charm and the results appear as I type the word.

Unlike with Picasa, Google didn't screw up here.

[FuturePilot]

Installed it, but how do you run it?

[juxtaposed]

Picasa and Google Earth are cool enough, but Google Desktop, at least on Linux, is late to the party.

If two things are already out, do you just use the one that was released first? :P


Installed it, but how do you run it?

Restart then tap control twice? Rumour has it :P

[sefs]

What information is sent from this software to Google?

[Old Pink]

What information is sent from this software to Google?

Credit card information, bank details, email passwords, logs of porn site visits...

Only joking, really it's:


The Google Desktop application indexes and stores versions of your files and other computer activity, such as email, chats, and web history. These versions may also be mixed with your Web search results to produce results pages for you that integrate relevant content from your computer and information from the Web. Your computer's content is not made accessible through Google Desktop to Google without your explicit permission.
Your copy of Google Desktop includes a unique application number. When you install Google Desktop, this number and a message indicating whether the installation succeeded are sent back to Google. Also, when Google Desktop automatically checks to see if a new version of the software is available, the current version number is sent to Google. The unique application number is required for Google Desktop to work and cannot be disabled.
If you choose to enable Advanced Features, Google Desktop may send a limited amount of non-personal information from your computer to Google. This includes summary information, such as the number of searches you do and the time it takes for you to see your results, and application reports we'll use to make the program better.Taken from: http://desktop.google.com/linux/privacypolicy.html :)

[tcpip4lyfe]

I've never used a search program like this before and I just realized it includes Gmail in its index. That's pretty nuts. The lines of the internet and the home computer are increasingly blurred by google which I love. I am concerned about privacy though. Good thing I dont do anything too illegal on my box.

[justin whitaker]

I've never used a search program like this before and I just realized it includes Gmail in its index. That's pretty nuts. The lines of the internet and the home computer are increasingly blurred by google which I love. I am concerned about privacy though. Good thing I dont do anything too illegal on my box.

It integrates with Gmail, Reader, etc. and blurs the line between desktop and internet. Their policy is anonymous usage can get added to their stats, etc...its not like someone can search for a file on your PC.

I guess if you are using a web based email client, then privacy really isn't a factor. There are more secure ways of sending and recieving emails.

Then again, you may want to lay off ponygirl.com if you are worried. ;)

[tehkain]

Well they took so long and they no longer bring anything to the game. Beagle and Deskbar already dominate within ubuntu(not to mention they integrate far better), still its better late then never.

Hopefully they will release their next new program on all platforms at the same time. They might have a chance at that point. Untill they stop doing delayed releases on alternate OSs they will always get beat by our open alternatives.

[DC@DR]

There's someone who is concerned about Google desktop privacy policy right here: http://blog.nixternal.com/2007.06.28/spygoogle-waredesktop/

[helliewm]

I am not happy with the Google privacy policy so will be staying with Beagle. I run a national UK privacy campaign and anything like that makes me uneasy.See my signature. Beagle works brilliantly for me.

Helen

[JC_510]

I think theres ups and downs to Google Desktop (well, at least form what I saw of the windows version). I'll try the others when I get my laptop and stick Ubuntu on it (new Dells, here I come!!)

hellie, what is it about the Google privacy policy that worries you? (PM me if you wish :) )

[helliewm]

Quite simple I do n't like the idea of google or whoever taking stats/ info off my PC. Also if one does not read the small print closely you give me Google more info about yourself/PC than you thought. That is why I have completely ditched ******* due to WGA even though I have completely legit discs for both XP and Vista Ultimate. Vista Ultimate literally lasted 5 mins on my brand new Dell Inspiron 9400. I don't even dual boot I am completely Ubuntu on both my Desktop and Laptop:D:D:D:D


Helen

[Extreme Coder]

This would be a killer when Google adds widgets :D

[awakatanka]

to be honest, i woulda preferred to have seen a google talk client for linux. one thing i cant stand is the fact that pidgin STILL does not have voice support. after how many years of development, im wondering if voice conversations will EVER arrive in linux. the only hope i have now is that sometime in the future google will wake up and create a linux version of their google talk client.

anyways, just my opinion. i never liked google desktop, even for windows. never had much use for it. but its good that it is available for linux. just would like to see the google talk application being made for linux.

Could try Gizmo(ok its not a IM but it can act as IM with voice ) it has support for MSN live,yahoo and dunno for sure also google talk. http://www.gizmoproject.com/

Haven't tryed it yet because of limited time i have atm.

OT : great will try this one. beagle is horrible.

[pingpongboss]

I had the same problem as Old Pink and I tried to use alien and the RPM package to install it. Here's how it worked out:

use alien to convert the rpm to deb *WITHOUT SCRIPTS*. With scripts, it just wouldn't finish the "Setting up google-desktop-linux..." thing no matter what I tried. So when ur finished installing, you will have to manually run the post-install script. First, chown /opt/google/ to ur user, and then execute /opt/google/desktop/bin/post_install.sh. Make sure you run post_install.sh as a regular user. I found out that if I tried to sudo it, either the install_firefox_plugin.sh or the install_thunderbird_plugin.sh script would hang forever. Then ur all set to go. Restart ur comp or just run
/opt/google/desktop/bin/gdlinux start to start the program.

I guess you could chown /opt/google back to root, but i haven't tried that and i dont know if it will mess things up again. Of course, you only need to do all this if it hangs at "Setting up google-desktop-linux..." when ur installing the official DEB.

[AusIV4]

Well they took so long and they no longer bring anything to the game. Beagle and Deskbar already dominate within ubuntu(not to mention they integrate far better), still its better late then never.

I don't know about you, but Beagle is a complete resource hog on every computer I've tried it on. The first computer I tried it on was an Intel P4, and it dragged the CPU up to about 90%. The second was a Core 2 Duo, and it dragged both cores up to about 90% - while I was using the computer - not while it was idle. Google Desktop indexes while I'm not using my computer.

As far as integration, IMHO you don't get much better than Google Desktop. Do a Google search, and your desktop results show up at the top. I also find the results to be much more complete.

If you're opposition is to Google Desktop being proprietary, that's one thing, but I find that it seriously outperforms the open source alternatives.

[hobbes_ba]

It appears that google desktop cannot search/index hidden files/directories

e.g. /home/user/.aMule

Is that a lacking feature on the gnu/linux version only?

Anyone?

PS: Also, there is a Google Reader integration? That it will be great!

So far i can only see for gmail.

[sefs]

Which means it won't index IM chats, which is the feature i loved in beagle.


It appears that google desktop cannot search/index hidden files/directories

e.g. /home/user/.aMule

Is that a lacking feature on the gnu/linux version only?

Anyone?

PS: Also, there is a Google Reader integration? That it will be great!

So far i can only see for gmail.

[maniacmusician]

Quite simple I do n't like the idea of google or whoever taking stats/ info off my PC. Also if one does not read the small print closely you give me Google more info about yourself/PC than you thought. That is why I have completely ditched ******* due to WGA even though I have completely legit discs for both XP and Vista Ultimate. Vista Ultimate literally lasted 5 mins on my brand new Dell Inspiron 9400. I don't even dual boot I am completely Ubuntu on both my Desktop and Laptop:D:D:D:D


Helen
I did read the privacy policy, and while they do collect a lot of stats, they don't collect any personalized info that you can't opt out of. I think, of course, that people should use the internet with a reasonable amount of caution, but I don't see anything disturbingly alarming in their policies. In addition, most of their stat collection usually results in more features and benefits for the users.

Maybe I missed something in the privacy policy, but I didn't really think it was excessive. If you want to see a bad privacy policy, read Facebook's :p

[JaspSoft]

Tried the .rpm - didn't hang, process finished, but can't find it anywhere. Looking now...


Does it not appear in the Applications menu?

[justin whitaker]

Maybe I missed something in the privacy policy, but I didn't really think it was excessive. If you want to see a bad privacy policy, read Facebook's :p

The whole point of social networks are that you give up your privacy for X benefit in return....access to the links /photos/media of like minded individuals, chance to network, etc....

Of course, you know this, I'm just saying.;)

[Xanatos Craven]

If two things are already out, do you just use the one that was released first? :P
If that thing that was released first is better-integrated into the OS/DE it was released for, suits my purposes and is open-source,.... well, yeah.

[Paul820]

I agree beagle is a resource hog, it never stops building a catalogue of my files. I actually searched for a file, it found it, when i searched for it again it said it was building the catalogue again. Why can't it add to the catalogue of file instead of building it all again?. As for google desktop, i never used it on XP because i had privacy issues. I don't think i will be using it on ubuntu either. I havn't got anything to hide it's just i don't like these big companies poking around on my computer. Yes they have privacy policies, but how do we know what they are REALLY collecting. No way of knowing!

[hanzomon4]

It's nice and less frustrating to set up then beagle, Faster too. But with a setup beagle(or tracker) I can't really justify using GooDesktop. I miss the feature in beagle that lets me specify what I'm searching for, ex artist:X to look for artist tag data instead of just anything with X in it. A Deskbar handler would be nice, being able to launch programs, find files, and search the web all from one place is just too neat. It's as good as I remember it being on windows which is certainly a good thing however.

[pingpongboss]

wow after using it for a while i'm quite impressed. Beagle and Tracker would both randomly skip files. Doing a search for the same term on either would give me different and incomplete results.

google desktop really gets EVERYTHING. woot!

[tcpip4lyfe]

It integrates with Gmail, Reader, etc. and blurs the line between desktop and internet. Their policy is anonymous usage can get added to their stats, etc...its not like someone can search for a file on your PC.

I guess if you are using a web based email client, then privacy really isn't a factor. There are more secure ways of sending and recieving emails.

Then again, you may want to lay off ponygirl.com if you are worried. ;)

And of course I had to check out that website. lol

[Matt0001]

Google Desktop was the one Windows app I missed when I switched to Ubuntu last year. I totally relied on it to find any document and re-find any website I needed. I had to unlearn my Google desktop habits when I switched. I've since learned to accept Beagle, and, more importantly, I'm a lot more knowledgeable about the importance of free software. It's enough that I'm not sure I want it running on my nice, clean, secure desktop. I'm on the fence still.

[vishnumrao]

Great to see the Google desktop search in linux. Will definitely help switching from Windows easier for more folks.

One thing I still miss is Google talk. Pidgin lacks voice!:( Hope we will see google talk on linux soon.

Way to go Google. Thanks for supporting linux.

[Dark Star]

Gr8 installed up and running .. Just a question is there any google sidebar for Linux or any sidebar ?

[super carrot]

I can't seem to get it working properly on my Ubuntu Studio, this is what I get when I run the command line:
/opt/google/desktop/bin/gdl_stats
/opt/google/desktop/bin/gdl_stats: error while loading shared libraries: libgdl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Anyone know how to fix this one? I have made sure that I have gone through synaptic and found anything libgdl and made sure that it was installed already.

[hanexar]

Does Google Desktop worth it? Here are the pro and cons I see after trying it:

Pros:
- It's faster indexing than beagle
- The interface is also faster to use
- It also use less resources
- It's way nicer than beagle (I hate the way beagle look)
- It scan your gmail account

Cons:
- It doesn't scan your .doc files, beagle does
- It doesn't scan your IM log, beagle does
- It is a proprietary closed source program
- Privacy can be an issue.

I still don't know which one I'll keep. I really hate how beagle looks and feels, but Google desktop doesn't fill all my needs. Searching IM and docs is my primary use of search function. I guess I'll rather some improvement in beagle!

[igknighted]

Gr8 installed up and running .. Just a question is there any google sidebar for Linux or any sidebar ?

Not yet, the current release is supposedly a beta and they focused on the search features primarily. Look for a sidebar with widgets in later releases.

[SlayerMan]

Google releasing native GNU/Linux software is great news. But I hope the GNU/Linux version of Google Desktop doesn't have the security problems of the Windows version...

[wyth]

Any Tracker users out there who can compare Google Desktop to that?

Tracker is pretty light-weight. A few issues I've had with it are it not restarting after my computer sleeps (sometimes it just shuts down), and if I put in the complete name of a document, it doesn't show up first on the search.

Otherwise, Tracker is a lot lighter and less resource-thirsty than Beagle, and replaced Beagle on my laptop.

So before I leave Tracker for Google Desktop, any testimonies?

[CyberAngel]

I am running it on a kubuntu feisty 64bit but it does not indexing my emails from thunderbird and my web history from firefox :(

The extensions are installed in both programs.

Has anyone else tried it on a 64bit machine?

[Obor]

I am running it on a kubuntu feisty 64bit but it does not indexing my emails from thunderbird and my web history from firefox :(

The extensions are installed in both programs.

Has anyone else tried it on a 64bit machine?

I haven't tried it on 64 bit machine but I had to add a path to my thunderbird profile in the preferences before it indexed my thunderbird emails.

[icecruncher]

yay, I agree, Google roxs
and I think that this is the first official application for Linux. correct me if I'm wrong pls

[Polygon]

yay, I agree, Google roxs
and I think that this is the first official application for Linux. correct me if I'm wrong pls

sorry :D

google earth was the first i believe

[CyberAngel]

I haven't tried it on 64 bit machine but I had to add a path to my thunderbird profile in the preferences before it indexed my thunderbird emails.

Did you remembered what exactly have you done and where you added the path?
And of course what path was that? :)

[Stereotypical Rage]

Did you remembered what exactly have you done and where you added the path?
And of course what path was that? :)
Yeah, I can't get Google Desktop to Index my Thunderbird profile. Even though I added the folder. Do I have to re-index after adding the folder?

[CyberAngel]

Yeah, I can't get Google Desktop to Index my Thunderbird profile. Even though I added the folder. Do I have to re-index after adding the folder?

check this out:
http://desktop.google.com/support/linux/bin/answer.py?answer=66149&ctx=sibling

You must have some extensions installed (Google Desktop should install them automatically), but for me the extensions are installed, but google desktop still is not indexing my e-mails and web history....

[Stereotypical Rage]

Thank you for that.... Thunderbird does not show the installed extension. =(

Update: After restarting the PC it shows, but it taxes the **** out of my X2 5200+ causing the system to freeze and eventually stabilize for a bit. Very similar to a rollarcoaster. It's also causing random Thunderbird crashes. >_<

[runningwithscissors]

whats wrong with pidgin? it does everything that i want it to do, except maybe voice chat (which no linux im program supports right now)Kopete works well with jingle.

[ravenus]

I installed Google Desktop (Ubuntu FF fully updated)..no error msgs and I see the Icon on the upper right of the taskbar. But if I click on Indexing status or preferences nothing seems to happen. gdl-box, config, fs_crawler, indexer and service are seen in my system resource lookup but thee doesn't seem to be any actual CPU uage for indexing happening and none of my desktop searches are showing any results.

What am I doing wrong here? :(

Btw apart from my linux install and swap, all partitions are NTFS. Could that make any issue?

[mig5]

Hey, just wanted to say that this also works on Xubuntu. Finally I might have a decent search tool, I couldn't get beagle to work.

Edit: It even opens the folders with thunar!

[CyberAngel]

I installed Google Desktop (Ubuntu FF fully updated)..no error msgs and I see the Icon on the upper right of the taskbar. But if I click on Indexing status or preferences nothing seems to happen. gdl-box, config, fs_crawler, indexer and service are seen in my system resource lookup but thee doesn't seem to be any actual CPU uage for indexing happening and none of my desktop searches are showing any results.

What am I doing wrong here? :(

Btw apart from my linux install and swap, all partitions are NTFS. Could that make any issue?

I saw the same behavior on another Ubuntu (not mine. ON a friend`s PC) I installed google desktop...

The Local interface was not enabled..

Check this out..

open a console and type "ifconfig"

if you don`t see anything like this:


lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:66 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3928 (3.8 KiB) TX bytes:3928 (3.8 KiB)


That`s your problem ;)

How to fix it?


gksudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces

and search for the loopback network interface.
Change this interface as following:


# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0


If a loopback interface does not exists at all just paste the above lines on the "interfaces" file. ;)

Hope it will work for you too :)

[revertex]

yeah! the linux first trojan horse!

[pingpongboss]

yeah! the linux first trojan horse!

that's blowing things out of proportion

[ravenus]

@CyberAngel

I tried the ifconfig thing and this is what I got:

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4582 (4.4 KiB) TX bytes:4582 (4.4 KiB)

[jonno]

Hmm, I installed the deb package and everything went well. However now when I log into gmail through Firefox the browser crashes. If I kill Google Desktop it no longer crashes Firefox. Anyone else noticed this?

I don't have it set to index my gmail account if that helps.

Jonno.

[Extreme Coder]

yeah! the linux first trojan horse!
/me points to the "Don't be a FOSS purist troll" sign.

[jonno]

Ok well my problem went away. Musta wanted a reboot.

[LMP900]

How do I set the Google Desktop to open files with its default application instead of a browser? For example, when I search for-and open "name.png", it will open with Firefox instead of the default image viewer.

[CyberAngel]

@CyberAngel

I tried the ifconfig thing and this is what I got:

So your problem is not similar to what I had if you already have a loopback interface.
It is just has the same behavior...
:(

[Dark Star]

Today removed Google Deskto will install it after Widgets will appear :)

[Praill]

to be honest, i woulda preferred to have seen a google talk client for linux. one thing i cant stand is the fact that pidgin STILL does not have voice support. after how many years of development, im wondering if voice conversations will EVER arrive in linux. the only hope i have now is that sometime in the future google will wake up and create a linux version of their google talk client.

anyways, just my opinion. i never liked google desktop, even for windows. never had much use for it. but its good that it is available for linux. just would like to see the google talk application being made for linux.
Im with you. Ive been waiting (rather impatiently) for the long promised linux gtalk client.
However, voice conversations are of course available. Skype, OpenWengo, and Ekiga are a few programs you can use.

[dustigroove]

How do I set the Google Desktop to open files with its default application instead of a browser? For example, when I search for-and open "name.png", it will open with Firefox instead of the default image viewer.

I also would be curious to find out how to make Google Desktop open the selected entry as opposed to loading it in the browser. I typically like to use GD as a run dialog (think LaunchBar or SlickRun... I think Deskbar does this as well) in addition to search.

Cheers

[michaelzap]

Thank you for that.... Thunderbird does not show the installed extension. =(

Update: After restarting the PC it shows, but it taxes the **** out of my X2 5200+ causing the system to freeze and eventually stabilize for a bit. Very similar to a rollarcoaster. It's also causing random Thunderbird crashes. >_<

This extension seems to be causing me lots of grief as well. Roller-coaster CPU spikes and periodic TB crashes, plus very slow response from TB a lot of the time. If I end up having to disable it, I'm not sure why I'd bother to keep using GDS at all considering Beagle worked just as well and had no major issues (other than not indexing my TB email)...

[michaelzap]

If I disable the GDS Thunderbird add-on, all of my problems go away (except, of course, my email is no longer indexed)...

[mrgnash]

I never liked Beagle. Too much of a resource hog, and it never seemed to be able to actually *find* anything; which from my understanding, is kinda the point. I'll give this a shot, and see how it compares.

[Dark Star]

I never liked Beagle. Too much of a resource hog, and it never seemed to be able to actually *find* anything; which from my understanding, is kinda the point. I'll give this a shot, and see how it compares.

:lolflag: Never heard that kinda funny statement ever :lol::-\":razz:\\:D/[-X

[stimpack]

It's nice to have an alternative to the Mono encumbered Beagle, for those of us who don't want MS/Novell stuff.

[pingpongboss]

I never liked Beagle. Too much of a resource hog, and it never seemed to be able to actually *find* anything; which from my understanding, is kinda the point. I'll give this a shot, and see how it compares.

same for me. tracker and beagle would each find different things, many times in the same folder. pissed me off quite a bit. Google Desktop actually indexes everything.

[ashdezign]

i agree. i would also like to see such things in gaim. but as i said previously, gaim has taken 3 years to introduce pidgin 2.0, which has virtually no improvements. it looks slightly cleaner, and some things have changed a little. but after 3 years....its kinda sad. they are making absolutely no progress. i've resided to the fact that there are only 2 ways that we will see google talk voice support in linux. the first, google creates a linux client. the second option is for me to write an IM program from scratch. as for gaim/pidgin, i dont believe there will be voice or video support for the next 3 to 5 years at least.

Try the Gizmo project, it at least allows you to connect a voice call to google talk users. Granted you wont be using your google talk name to make the call and you cant recieve a call from a google talk user (at least I haven't figured out how) , but at least you can make the outgoing call.