Google Inc. plans to launch a Linux version of Google Desktop on Wednesday, almost three years after the product's launch for the Windows operating system. The application, designed for indexing and finding data in PCs, as well as for searching the Web, also comes in a Mac OS X version, introduced in April of this year.
Like the Mac OS X version, Google Desktop for Linux is a beta, or test, product. The Windows version shed its beta tag already, meaning Google considers it a more stable and mature product. At this point, Google Desktop for Linux does not feature the Sidebar and Gadget features present in the Windows version. Gadgets are mini-applications that display things such as e-mail, weather data, photos and news on the desktop. The Sidebar is a vertical panel where the Gadgets can be organized.
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News source: PCWorld
Like the Mac OS X version, Google Desktop for Linux is a beta, or test, product. The Windows version shed its beta tag already, meaning Google considers it a more stable and mature product. At this point, Google Desktop for Linux does not feature the Sidebar and Gadget features present in the Windows version. Gadgets are mini-applications that display things such as e-mail, weather data, photos and news on the desktop. The Sidebar is a vertical panel where the Gadgets can be organized.
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It also seems to connect to google.com when I have Anonymous Info sent to Google, Advanced Features and Gmail turned off. What for? If I had the source I'd know...
If it was open source you wouldn't hear complaints -- except maybe how ugly/bloated it looks.
Because when a company does port it's software to Linux, it does it in a very crappy way.
It also seems to connect to google.com when I have Anonymous Info sent to Google, Advanced Features and Gmail turned off. What for? If I had the source I'd know...
If it was open source you wouldn't hear complaints -- except maybe how ugly/bloated it looks.
In all honesty I just can't bring myself to care whether something is open source or not. If I'm going to add something to my list of must-have software, I don't care to see its source. And I'm saying that as someone who writes software for a living.
but there is hope that the next release will be better :-)
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