Comments on: Unofficial Google Desktop Suite

By: JER0EN R0LAND

JER0EN R0LAND — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:32:49 +0000

Why do Go0Gle not use Mozilla thunderbird? Your know why Google not need Mozilla, google is very arrogant and want to make advertise or popup. Mozilla firefox block popup and commercial. Mozilla remove unsafty technology, google need that to make create spyware or advertise so try Download Google Chrome!

By: Trip

Trip — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:23:29 +0000

I’ve been using Prism for all of Google’s apps since the day it came out. But I’ll definitely have to give this one a try. I agree that it would be nice to see Google Notebook included, maybe with a quick add shortcut like Evernote’s. And also maybe a notifier for gmail and gcal would be great as well…..

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:10:35 +0000

AshGhost wrote:

Nobody gives Bubbles any love: http://bubbleshq.com/

Believe it or not I just came across that program the other day, and I do plan on writing about it. I'm actually trying to come up with a way to turn it into a CyberNotes, which is why I didn't write about it as soon as I found it.

Robert Nyman wrote:

The Gmail problem lies within the AIR environment in conjunction with some special code Gmail uses (I’ve spoken to the Gmail team to try and figure out what’s going on).

Hopefully you can get that worked out because it's really the only thing that's not the greatest with the program.

By: Robert Nyman

Robert Nyman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:24:36 +0000

Hi, I’m the developer of GMDesk. Thanks for the attention, I’m glad that you like it!

The Gmail problem lies within the AIR environment in conjunction with some special code Gmail uses (I’ve spoken to the Gmail team to try and figure out what’s going on). Basically I’d say that the font problem, as well as a show-stopper for the nice suggestions you have, lies in AIR not being mature enough yet, and it fails to give developers sufficient controls of some parts.

However, I hope these problems will disappear in the future, and that GMDesk will become useful for as many as possible.

By: AshGhost

AshGhost — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:21:47 +0000

Nobody gives Bubbles any love: [bubbleshq.com]

They brought web apps out of the browser years before Prism came out, but then development stalled. They’ve since picked back up, but instead of offering the option to use Firefox’s Gecko engine for rendering (which never worked for me, anyway), it automatically uses IE on the backend. There are several pre-made Bubbles, with things like popup notifiers for Gmail and Google Reader, and the ability to interact with some by right-clicking on a tray icon.

Not quite a Google Desktop App, but I recently re-installed Bubbles, and I at least prefer it to Prism.