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  • pavpanchekha, on 10/11/2007, -28/+4Can't imagine how slow my computer will be. With gDesktop, MetaTracker, AND Beagle (for some reason can't uninstall it without removing Ubuntu-desktop) my system will probably just die. Can't they just let us have their desktop WITHOUT the indexing service, using a custom indexer instead? sigh.
    • 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.
    • underdog5004, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11ubuntu-desktop is just a meta-package, so feel free to uninstall, it won't mess anything up.
      • bobpaul, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5yeah, but then you miss out on major updates. It's better just to disable the beagle service. It's not like it harms anything if it's disabled
        • QwertyManiac, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4No, you won't miss out on any updates even after removing ubuntu-desktop .. It is just a wrapper like thing, you can peel it off if you don't need and yet have the candy beneath.
          • KibibyteBrain, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4You may miss out on additions to the standard Ubuntu distribution. This is not a big deal for more experienced users who know what packages they want, but for less experienced users who might want "foobar" to install when Ubuntu adds that to their standard ubuntu-desktop package dependencies, it might be best to leave it. I agree, disable beagle over uninstalling it.
          • bruenig, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4@Kibibyte

            They won't update ubuntu-desktop between releases as that would obviously be retarded. If only apt included the concept of a group of packages like superior package management on arch and other pacman distros, such misunderstandings about these meta-packages wouldn't be so prevalent.

            PS: When I tried to reply to yoru comment it kept giving me some nonsense about session being expired.
    • GoodOldJacob, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4If I hadn't read the first part of your comment, I'd say you sound like a Gentoo user.
    • bob12321, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1what you can to is remove them and then boot in to restore mode and type in "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop"
    • leszek, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I don't understand why it removes ubuntu-desktop when you try to remove beagle. Beagle is not a dependency (direct or indirect) of ubuntu-desktop. Which version of Ubuntu are you using ?
  • 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.)
    • livevil, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Oh *****, now their tentacles are reaching into Linux. Don't get me wrong Google makes great technologies but I liked it better when I had browser only contact with Google.
  • straylight51, on 10/11/2007, -7/+59Yeah! thanks google
    • 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
    • oobuntu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Possibly more on the way.. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=751&num=1
      Maybe a newer google talk/pidgin that has voice chat and video ?

      These releases make sense from a google point of view since they run a lot of linux on the desktop i gather, so there is an immediate inhouse benefit for them
  • halosniper7, on 10/11/2007, -25/+2ha. your ***** too
  • mjpatey, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Great! I was just wishing for this yesterday.
    • DoggPound73, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Same here. I was just looking around their website to see if there was a linux version available. Glad to see it. Now, am I really gonna install it?
    • Septimus, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Quick! Try wishing for a girlfriend now.
  • schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -11/+73It 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.
    • 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.
      • jeanmaxime, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2me too, picasa uses wine and is a bit to slow, even if it has more features, i hate waiting for it.
    • Erfus, on 10/11/2007, -8/+4Even if the apps aren't as good?
      • 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.
    • bieber, on 10/11/2007, -8/+8Yes, even if the apps aren't as good. Proprietary software stays off my machine. In this case, though, I don't see any need for it, when Beagle is already installed on my system...
    • harlowsmonkeys, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6But Beagle is written in C#, and so requires Mono on Linux, which you've previously complained about. So why would you care if Google hurt Beagle?
      • schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3I don't use F-Spot. I use Gwenview, Tim Smith (?).
      • mercurysquad, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I think only the search GUI part is written in C# ? I might be wrong.
    • 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.
      • GMorgan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Well the problem is they bought Picasa rather than developed it in house. A port would be difficult since it is built with Windows technology. Google Earth was built with QT from the start, even on Windows. A port of that is easy.

        It would be cool if Google Desktop could use Beagle as a back end. The back end is better the problem if any is interface.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • bradleyland, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2How about we just support the best software? Sorry, but philosophy will never drive the market. People will use what comes easiest and works the best, whether it is free (as in freedom) or not.
  • Spikito, on 10/11/2007, -27/+127I didn't want Google desktop on XP, why the hell would i put it on Linux
    • drgnpaladin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7I'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.
      • MioTheGreat, on 10/11/2007, -8/+5As far as Outlook searching goes, Vista's Indexer + Outlook 2007 is a match made in heaven. I can search my emails right from my start menu's search box.
        • darkfoxx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4you mentioned Vista without saying anything bad about it? on digg? O.O heresy i say!
      • Kinjiru, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2how about get a real email client instead of M$ outhouse...
    • 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?
      • javaroast, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2For the same reason you are posting a comment that is irrelevant to the topic and taking time to post for the simple reason to tell someone else not to post. At least the OP's message was relevant to the topic. Your post was just a wast of everyone's time.
    • KriTenKs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Apart from the obvious google sidebar bloat. Tell me, what's so bad about google desktop? (curious)
      • sirber, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1When I tried it it was for the sidebar, not the search.
      • aaroncampbell, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Unfortunately, the linux version doesn't have the sidebar.
    • Cerebral, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I actually prefer MSN desktop search. Not to mention that it plugs directly into outlook as well. Great software.

      Also for any admins out there... in the MSN search you can setup network shares to search and it will only search those files that the user has access to. Pretty good way to let "Joe Officeworker" find that excel spreadsheet himself.
    • werewolves, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Copernic desktop search is better for XP IMHO.
    • oobuntu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Copernic is a running joke at my company. It's such a hog. Any desktop issues, i tell the user that I don't support copernic and they must disable it before I look at their machine. Hey presto, many performance issues are fixed automatically.
  • wounded625, on 10/11/2007, -12/+34THANK YOU GOOGLE!
    I love you.
    Now just work on Google Talk
  • slipgrid, on 10/11/2007, -3/+35What, no widgets?
    • 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.
    • mbstrlbstr, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1It looks like they focused more on the indexing for Linux users, with full text and htlm indexing

      From the Help Page

      What about the features in the Windows version?

      The Windows and Linux versions of Google Desktop are separate products. Each version is lovingly hand-crafted to provide the best use with its particular operating system.

      Although the search features are similar in both versions, you might find some Windows features (sidebar and Gadgets) that aren't yet available in the Linux version. However, the Linux version has some features that the Windows version doesn't have, such as full text indexing for source code and PostScript files as well as HTML code. We plan to improve Google Desktop for both operating systems for years to come.

      http://desktop.google.com/support/linux/bin/answer.py?answer=62981&useful=1&show_useful=1
  • multitude, on 10/11/2007, -11/+11What information does Google send from your computer to Google's servers? They aren't doing this for free, of course.... I would guess that it's part of their project to gather information about individuals that can be sold for advertising purposes. I would like to read a summary of their privacy position WRT this product, especially in light of the sub-par policies that have generated so much controversy lately.
    • daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7http://desktop.google.com/en/linux/privacypolicy.html
    • Buu700, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1It's fine with me if my information (other than secret things such as... well I'd rather non get sent to prison for the rest of my life so i won't say.......... jkjk) is used for advertising purposes that don't involve assassins and/or strange men coming to my house, as long as it helps Google :-)
  • 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...
    • TheWiseNoob, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3It's "very nice"
    • nickisgod1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Beagle is a resource hoggin ass. that being said i dont need either to find files on my own desktop. I tend to know where i store things or at least close enought that grep or locate works dandy. Plus i still don't trust the legality of mono
    • 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.
  • JKAL, on 10/11/2007, -15/+3so long Microsoft, bloated code has had it's day
    • Xyc0, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2A lot of open source projects are getting bloated as well. Don't let that stop you from enjoying freedom, but just because it's community supported doesn't mean it's a lean mean fighting machine.
    • Roger, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7@JKAL

      You may not know this, but nowadays being irrationally anti-Microsoft makes YOU the noob.
      • JKAL, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1@Roger
        You might not know this, but not everyone is out there to proove they are "cool" to the masses, I'm just expressing what I feel. I hope a l33t h4x0r like u will understand.
    • abandonedhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I smell another grammar/spellling rant on the usage of "it's" in his comment.
  • 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.
    • mbeauchez, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3$ ldd /opt/google/desktop/bin/* | grep -wc wine
      0
      In regular english: no wine whatsoever.
  • colonels1020, on 10/11/2007, -12/+7Yay! Finally a decent search app for Linux.
    • happyhappyhappy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1"locate" finds everything and does it instantly. Or if you need GUI apps, those exist too.
  • 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.
    • 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.
      • Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Beagle once gave me a weird problem. About a year ago, it was taking up about 10 gigs of log files. Log files! I was wondering why I was running so low on space. Beagle was promptly uninstalled.
        Now, things are better. But I'll still never forget the weirdness of that.
    • prammy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I like trackerd. Beagle is fine if you don't index your entire hard drive. I just have it index my home dir and my /misc/media folder which has my music/videos and it works great.

      But I'm happy that google released their desktop search. More options is always good.
    • agentlame, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Never! +digg... openSUSE rocks!
      • ErBiC, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Haha, thanks for that... most diggers hate openSuSE because of the M$-Novell patent deal thing.
    • Septimus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Don't say that, google will sue them now for not using theirs.
  • Maxpower57, on 10/11/2007, -14/+3Hell Yeah!
    Linux > god
  • monzsca, on 10/11/2007, -6/+37man locate
    • 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.
    • mhearne, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I'm using Mandriva, and that's exactly what I had to do. When it was still Mandrake, there was a search tool kind of like Windows, but when they became Mandriva they replaced it with something called "Cat".

      If I just want to find a script like 'foxtest', I really don't want to fill out a form. Also, Cat was really hard to disable and used a lot of cycles at inconvenient times (like the Windows indexer).

      The problem I have with locate is that I get too many unrelated results. Maybe I could add some switches to the aliases in bash.sh and exclude things like ./tmp and ./share.
    • tmahmood, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1grep 'string_you_are_looking_for' 'folder_path'
      • theroyalweman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0a) that doesn't work for binary files (spreadsheets, word processor documents, mp3s, videos)
        b) why should i have to know the folder path of something i'm looking for? why can't the computer just tell me where it is?
    • digi691, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1If the file is new it will not find it until the cron job runs or you manually run updatedb.
    • kevcool, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Agreed - locate and grep do it for me.
  • 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
    • TheWiseNoob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1What theme are you using?
      • hydrosan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1take a look below, i have a screen shot
        • TheWiseNoob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I meant what compiz fusion theme are you using
      • hydrosan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2the window decorator is "BlackMist" (it's an emerald theme) aswell as a background I came across on deviantart. I'm workingn on some more visual mods (It's a fairly fresh install, I had a heavily customized gnome/beryl setup before)
    • TheSabre, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Anyone that thinks anything related to computer software, be it OS or application, is "sexy" really needs to go outside more.
  • hydrosan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27here's a whole desktop screen shot with gdesktop open: http://pjeer.com/gdesktop.png
    • speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Can you send me your background? speaker219 -at- gmail -dot- com
      if you could thanks =)
      • wounded625, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3me 2 me 2. its awesome.
        wounded625 at the g, if you know what i mean
      • hydrosan, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3check your email folks
    • ndonohue, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3could you post it on your blog you've got linked there? thanks
    • jeriqo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I see fonts are still ugly under linux.
      So are the rounded corners of this app.
      :(
  • hydrosan, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4here's a whole desktop screen shot with gdesktop open: http://pjeer.com/gdesktop.png
  • jm1234567890, on 10/11/2007, -6/+5````````
  • mohamedmansour, on 10/11/2007, -19/+18Useless... "man locate" and "man find" is sufficient ... They should have OpenSource it, instead of adding google desktop adds in the future for google Desktop.

    Everyone is going crazy for what? It isn't open source, and the reason why, we, the linux community choose Linux instead of Windows is because it is Open Source, so we could sneak through the source code and play with it. (which is a beauty). I say, we stop supporting that non open source search, and support the other open source index searches as well.

    We don't want the Linux Community to be another Commercial Closed Source Microsoft Community.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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).
    • 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.
  • crazybrit, on 10/11/2007, -7/+5I don't really like Google, and I REALLY don't like Google desktop - but I installed it just to try it out. I searched for a text file with the quick search, and when I launched it it opened it Firefox. :/ Then again, it seems to be able to launch folders, which the XP version can't do for some odd reason.

    I'll stick with organizing my files by hand, thanks - I can live without the resource usage and privacy concerns.
  • 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.
    • crazybrit, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3And Google Desktop is going to do what?
  • Jammerdelray, on 10/11/2007, -6/+11i dunno beagle is pretty decent
    • speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2People actually use beagle? locate ftw
  • speaker219, on 10/11/2007, -8/+1I have no need for bloat, that's why Linux is better. Screw Google Desktop, if anything, use beagle, which nobody (including me) uses anyway.
  • vvaduva, on 10/11/2007, -10/+8awesome....another way for google to spy on us!!
    • santaliqueur, 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.
      • vvaduva, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Ahhh...so lame yet so insightful. How old are you anyways...by any chance, was your mom visiting Europe 15, 16 years ago?
  • apikoros, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2not FOSS = no thanks.
  • vasillalov, on 10/11/2007, -8/+0No thanks! I don't want anything indexed especially my Desktop. I know which file is located where. Plus, how can anyone be sure if Google is not sharing/selling/forwarding any information or data mined information about my files with third parties.
  • MWeather, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4I use grep.
  • vondur, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Now you Linux users can also enjoy the new found slowness on your computer just like your Windows and Mac using bretheren! (hopefully it uses less CPU/memory than Beagle)
  • 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.
    • oddtom, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4"...since everything I do seems to be some way or another related to google -- gmail, calendar, reader, docs..."

      That's what has always worried me about Google. They offer these free services not for the individual marketing information they provide, but for the cross-indexed consumer profile they are capable of generating on you. They know what you're interested in, who you're talking to and what about it, what/where/and when you are attending an event, what types of news interests you, what you want to buy, and what you are writing about. Now they're even capable of knowing the content of the files you have on your computer.

      Google is accomplishing what the DHS would have a veritable hard-on to be able to do. Unlike the government (in theory), this corporation has few legal constraints concerning this data they collect on you. It's sold for top dollar to the highest bidder. Who's to say one of the bidders isn't the federal government? We're well aware that the Bush Administration has already attempted to collect a cross-section of profiles under a ***** guise of the threat of porn to America; I doubt they have lost interest in this data gold mine.

      Use the CustomizeGoogle add-on in Firefox so, at the very least, the company can't cross-index so much on you. Separate accounts for different services isn't a bad idea, either. Yes, Google creates great software, that is their carrot on the stick for users to give up extremely valuable data on themselves.

      "Don't be Evil." Catchy, comforting... here's another one for you: "Don't ever take the word of a corporation."
  • NTolerance, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4No Google Sidebar? Linux still doesn't have a good sidebar...
    • hadak, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4if you want a sidebar, use vista. personally, i find them intrusive. i like to utilize all my screen real estate and not give it up to sidebars.
  • slugicide, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2I can't launch an app with it, I don't think. That's a poo poo.
    • seraph741, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1alt-f2 (run) ?
    • bob12321, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Just run "/opt/google/desktop/bin/gdlinux start"
    • daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1or alt+spacebar for kicker (if you are using kde)
  • kahrytan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19@mohamedmansour

    Not everyone that uses Linux is doing it for Open Source. Don't make assumptions.
    • daftman, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1What are they doing it for? Getting freebies?
      • fireinhole8, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3i got it cause it's free and not microsoft >.>
    • jeriqo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3You missed the "reply" button.
  • LanEvo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2where's the tarball?
    • stmiller, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3unpack the rpm or deb. No source available.
  • bruenig, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2locate, find, which, whereis, grep on occasion. Nothing more could possibly be needed.
  • spacebar14, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1*****, this is gonna be big. Bigger then my mom even.
  • trogdoor, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2NOOOOOO! Now I won't be able to download .avi files from google video just because they don't have a google video player for Linux :(
    • daftman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Are you being serious or trying to be funny? If you are serious then I would have to say I have no problem playing and downloading avi from google video.
  • ecorona, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1I'm very happy about the linux support but what's so cool about Google Desktop? It finds files, big whoop.
    • daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Err no, it doesn't just find files. It index what's IN the files. This includes PDFs, docs, odfs, emails, etc. Basically most documents.
  • 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.
    • maninalift, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1"[WHO] use Ubuntu on their desktop" .

      The non-nerd user is the subject of the sentence and Ubuntu the object. Whom is the objective form.
  • 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!
  • FreakyPhil31, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0@ wisenoob: It's spelled Konqueror.
  • sowdog, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Sorry gdesklets, you're late :(
  • kingmoffa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2anyone know if there are .debs for different architectures? I run Linux on my apple ppc hardware.
  • joelhy, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0great
  • raseel, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1I wanna see how cpu-hogging is this , compared to "find".
    Any other benefits ?
    • daftman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21. Find doesn't index what's in your documents
      2. Find doesn't index at all thus it's a long search although it's ad hoc
    • sqrt7744, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1i'd recommend locate over find... locate has an index database, whereas find actually scours your computer...
  • grigio, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4I installed it, but it is poorly integrated with GNOME, Beagle and Tracker are more integrated with the rest.. I can even send SMS with Deskbar. I don't like that all the configuration is a web page.
  • KevinJim, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Thats cool, but i prefer something Open Source, like Bealge. I
    m not going to use Google Desktop but I sure happy with that move.
  • gerbalblaste, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2sweet i can finally dump gdesklets.
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