linux.com — Since version 2 came out in 2005, Google Desktop for Windows has included a sidebar that users can fill with screen gadgets, but the Linux version (version 1, from June 2007) provided only indexing and search functions, with no eye candy whatsoever. This has finally changed. Google recently released Google Gadgets for Linux (GGL)
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rogerJul 26, 2008
Why did they stop updating Google Desktop? There haven't been any new features in a long time.
klevernessJul 26, 2008
I'll start using them when they are fully integrated with plasma, probably in KDE 4.2. The Google team is apparently working on it :)<a class="user" href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-gadgets-for-linux-dev/browse_thread/thread/b695a1ade6a0d302">http://groups.google.com/group/google-gadgets-for- ...</a>
davidronJul 26, 2008
Why not just install Prism and use it to open <a class="user" href="http://www.google.com/calendar?">http://www.google.com/calendar?</a>
ethana2Jul 27, 2008
To be fair, I like the idea of a gadget because it kinda discourages over complicating things, you know? You just need this one little function here or there and you can get it.
oobuntuJul 27, 2008
@addictedwhat if i want to find emails, documents and web pages with occurence of the words "cisco 2821 ios 12.5.15t4" that are on my computer (or network shares), because i need to find a particular document that i remember reading.you need a fully indexing search facility for this. this is a common use of desktop search in my everyday office life. I need to find references to bug reports or maybe some info i wrote in an pdf doc, but it could be in one of many folders, we are not looking for file names but data within a file.
orcohenAug 6, 2008
check out my ubuntu desktop with google gadgets.<a class="user" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/orcohen/2723532108/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/orcohen/2723532108/</a>
suzheAug 9, 2008
Google Gadgets for Linux 0.10.1 was released. Many bugs have been fixed in this release. Some popular gadgets, like facebook and Google Calendar gadgets, run without problem now.
donna1234Nov 8, 2008
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