On Wednesday 04 July 2007 8:20 am, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Google has a Debian version of its desktop: > http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html > > Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel > browser does exactly nothing: no messages, nothing. So I uninstalled it > again. > > Did anybody try it? > > Hugo I saw it on slashdot, and thought about trying it. I have used Google Desktop on my WinXP box, and I have to say, I do not like that deskbar thing, or the 'floating taskbar' whatever-you-call it. I do, however enjoy desktop search. But, Kerry/Beagle are a perfect desktop search component for Linux. And there is even, for Gnome users, the deskbar applet to make it like Mac OSX Spotlight and the Google taskbar search. One advantage/feature of Google Desktop is that it also indexes Gmail messages. But I use Kmail with Gmail, so Beagle/Kerry does that, too. I guess if you just use Gmail web mail this would be helpful. I just don't have the need. -- Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com> Location: GA, USA Web: http://matthewpoer.freehostia.com GnuPG Public Key: 4DD0A9A6 Keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net
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