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- Spikito, on 10/11/2007, -27/+127I didn't want Google desktop on XP, why the hell would i put it on Linux
- schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -11/+72It seems like everyone is a winner, but this could do to Beagle et al what Picasa did to Gwenview and FSpot. Google's apps are still proprietary and not Free (as in Freedom). If you can, welcome Google's contribution, but give priority to Free software developers, whose work built the foundation on which Google grew.
- straylight51, on 10/11/2007, -7/+59Yeah! thanks google
- shrewduser, on 10/11/2007, -7/+51hmmm well people have been asking for this, i guess google do love their linux users after all.... (and why wouldn't they? when microsoft is using its OS to put the squeeze on them.)
- slipgrid, on 10/11/2007, -3/+35What, no widgets?
- monzsca, on 10/11/2007, -6/+37man locate
- hydrosan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27here's a whole desktop screen shot with gdesktop open: http://pjeer.com/gdesktop.png
- wounded625, on 10/11/2007, -12/+34THANK YOU GOOGLE!
I love you.
Now just work on Google Talk - rotarychainsaw, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23Mehhhh.... someone tell me how much better than Beagle it is before I DL it. Not that I really use Beagle anyways...
- jemmyw, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20I prefer f-spot to picasa. also if something like f-spot can get installed with the OS it'll be used more often by default.
- KloroFormd, on 10/11/2007, -7/+23Then don't put it on Linux.
And why are you taking the time to comment if this doesn't interest you? - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19@mohamedmansour
Not everyone that uses Linux is doing it for Open Source. Don't make assumptions. - lesterchakyn, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19But is this one native? or compiled with winelib like Picasa?
Anyone knows? - mjpatey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14It doesn't appear to be built with winelib. It has several "real" Linux dependencies, mentioned on the download page. Also, I'm running it now, and unlike Picasa, its fonts look to be rendered according to my normal Gnome font settings. Wine programs always have that non-anti-aliased look to their fonts.
- skyshock1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12I've only used Beagle a few times on various distros of Ubuntu, but I found it to be quite a memory hog in every instance.
- reav3r, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Can pidgin do voice? I've always been under the impression that it can't but if it can that GT on Lin is kinda useless.
- aaronm67, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Google desktop has nothing on Beagle, because Beagle has been very tightly integrated with quite a few programs like e-mail (KMail/Evolution), chat logs (Gaim/Kopete), RSS Feeds (Akregator and a few others), browser history (not just search history like google). Google desktop (more then likely, at least), does not integrate nearly as well with as many apps as Beagle.
- mjpatey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Great! I was just wishing for this yesterday.
- kelpdip, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10The only reason I had to digg you down is for telling me why I use linux.
I am tired of people speaking for the so-called "community" - it is time we realize that it is less a community than a collection of individuals with different opinions on everything. - jdhore1, on 10/11/2007, -3/+12you should be able to remove MetaTracker fine (as that shouldn't have any reverse dependencies) and you can feel free to remove beagle and the ubuntu-desktop packages as ubuntu-desktop is just a meta-package and if you already have Ubuntu installed and don't plan on massively modifying your installed base software, it's ok to remove that file if you need to. Also, i believe Beagle is not running by default in Ubuntu, it's just taking up a bit of hard drive space.
- hdante, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9This is incorrect. locate and find don't search inside files and don't understand different file formats.
Also, even though I always prefer free software over proprietary software, it's not ok to suggest that linux community should be unfriendly to commercial closed source people (even though after all those years closed source may just sound plain stupid). Google knows a lot about searching (duh) and this is obviously good competition. - stoanhart, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8There seems to be some mis-understanding on how wine works. The wine drop-in-replacement dll's are completely native code. They simply implement functions that exist in windows. When someone takes windows source code, and recompiles it agains winelib, the result is a native executable. Picasa for linux is completely native, built on wine's implementations of the Win32 API.
- ErBiC, on 10/11/2007, -8/+16I've never liked Google Desktop much... the seemingly custom Beagle system built into openSuSE has always been great. And I don't think Google Desktop would work too well with the search box in the SuSE K menu.
And of course now I'm going to get dugg down because I use openSuSE. Oh well. - wounded625, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Well, thats noit the reason i like it. If i want to email someone, i just click the mail button on their name on my GTalk and it opens gmail with there address already filled out. thats nice if i don't already have firefox open. Also, the voice chat is nice, pidgin can't do that.
- underdog5004, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11ubuntu-desktop is just a meta-package, so feel free to uninstall, it won't mess anything up.
- Septimus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Quick! Try wishing for a girlfriend now.
- theantix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I find it remarkably faster than beagle. The initial indexing in Google Desktop Linux seems far less aggressive in terms of resources, according to top it is taking up less than 1% cpu and ram on my dellbuntu. Tapping ctrl twice brings up the search bar _instantly_, and search results thus far are likewise instantaneous.
I never had remotely near as pleasant a user experience using beagle, but then again I never used it in SLED and only the poorly integrated Ubuntu version. - daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7http://desktop.google.com/en/linux/privacypolicy.html
- harlowsmonkeys, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Please explain to me how, using locate and find, I would find all my PDF files and all my emails that contain the word "juggle". (And I want the results in a few seconds, not a few hours).
- amerio, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I don't think picasa did something to f-spot... Picasa was the worst of Google's efforts to support linux. The software is good for windows, but on linux picasa is terrible, since it's not a native linux application but uses wine to run... They did it right with Google Earth, though!Google Desktop Search is something I have always waited, since Beagle has never been that good. Plus Google is one of the few companies that take linux seriously. I like open source but I don't mind being able to choose, same way I choose digikam over picasa.
- Breepee, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7I'd like an updated Picasa more... 2.2 is really getting to old, I especially like the keywords in 2.7
- koan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6It isn't useless, anymore than beagle is useless. Find and locate are great for finding files where you know something about what you are looking for. Desktop searches are less about finding stuff than they are providing a more semantic way of getting to your data. Find will tell you where something is of course - and if it is somewhere across several storage paths, you'll get there in the end.
Desktop search is about not caring where the information is within your search space - you don't want to find it, you want to open it. I don't use XP so much any more, but when I do, I almost never look for a file, or go to it to open it. If I need it, I just ctrl-ctrl and type words in that represent the document. Then the document is there for me to open.
So five years ago, I received a serial number for X product. Where did I keep it? Was it an email, a pdf or what? Who cares? ctrl-ctrl, product name, serial, enter. Bang! I have the document.
No more screwing around with a file manager and file heirachy that doesn't make sense in the way we need to catagorise data. - axcairns, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6"Google Desktop creates cached copies (snapshots) of your files and other items each time they have been changed, and stores these copies on your computer’s hard drive. As a result, you can often use Desktop to find previous versions of your files or ones you've accidentally deleted."
Woohoo! TimeMachine for Linux! - julip, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7Okay, everyone's gonna flame me for this... I'm actually really glad that this was released. I've never quite managed to get either beagle or tracker working correctly, there's always one thing or the other that's wrong with them. About two days ago I booted into my Windows system and decided that I would try it out, since everything I do seems to be some way or another related to google -- gmail, calendar, reader, docs... -- so I did. And I loved it. It's just so INGENIOUS -- press ctrl twice, and the search box appears. Results appear in a web browser, no a sepparate program. And the searches are LIGHTNING FAST. Much faster than Windows Desktop Search, Beagle, or any other I've tried. The gadgets are nice and useful too, but not the point of the app.
Anyway, I liked it so much that I wished something like it were available for Linux. What a surprise that only a couple of days after it was actually released! So, I've installed it. It's currently indexing, but as far as I can see, it's just as fast as it's Windows counterpart.
The only downside is that it's not open source, and that's a real shame. Hopefully Google will release the source... in the next million years. - Arigato, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8I've been waiting for this for a while. Good bye beagle and your days of wasting my cpu.
- hydrosan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8dude seriously, get your facts straight, linux on the desktop is becoming very commonplace, not only in corporations, but in many countries outside of the usa (and even here, but i'll get to that in a sec). stop being an ignorant prick and thing outside the box. Governments around the world are moving to linux, not only for its stability but also for it's cost effectiveness. On the desktop and usability side linux has made great progress in the last few years (hell, Dell started selling PCs and notebooks with linux after HUGE demand....coincidence?)
- Excessive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7Think about non-nerds whom use Ubuntu for their desktop. How much Windows converts know those commands? This is a step towards making Linux more user friendly.
- cyberwiz01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Agreed, locate is awesome for, well locating files, but beagle, Google Desktop and the like index into each of the files, which makes them easier to find according to their content. As far as i know locate can't do that.
- Jammerdelray, on 10/11/2007, -6/+11i dunno beagle is pretty decent
- hydrosan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8just installed it on ubuntu 7.04, looks very sexy and fits my overall compiz fusion theme i've got going
- Megatog615, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I'd rather them make a Google Talk plugin for Pidgin.
Hate having all those messengers at once. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I don't think Google cares how much gay porn you're downloading in your mom's basement. Take off your tinfoil hat, nobody cares enough to spy on you.
- Roger, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7@JKAL
You may not know this, but nowadays being irrationally anti-Microsoft makes YOU the noob. - JiggNJive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5If there are no widgets, then there is no reason to install Google Desktop for me as I already index my desktop with Beagle.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4google is making the prelimenary steps before release Google OS, a fork of debian :D
- drgnpaladin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6I'm not a fan of google desktop in general, but one thing it's great for is searching my outlook inbox at work. I don't know what I would do without it.
- KriTenKs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Apart from the obvious google sidebar bloat. Tell me, what's so bad about google desktop? (curious)
- wounded625, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3me 2 me 2. its awesome.
wounded625 at the g, if you know what i mean - diggitydank, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I agree with supporting the non-proprietary developers first, but I also welcome Google into the Linux game. With Google's support, Linux takes many steps forward. If nobody uses Google's software outside of Google, they will quit supporting Linux publicly.
In my group of engineers at work, everybody is a Windows user (except me). They are Google applications users, too. While I do not expect them all to switch to Linux, they may at least consider tinkering around with it when they find many of their favorite Goo-Apps are available. - hydrosan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3check your email folks
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