Does this support the offline extensions, so that you can work seamlessly (mostly) if you're temporarily disconnected or without service?
(e.g. on a plane, if I ever take one again...)
Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
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#12It's a cool concept in theory -- I'd always thought I'd like using it. But in practice, I realize I'm addicted to tabs. When working on 3 documents at once, I want them in separate tabs in the same window -- not 3 different windows. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I'm actually at the point where I want things to go in the opposite direction -- just turn all my apps into tabs. (Like Chromebooks, I guess.) Finder? VLC?…
If you use Windows, Stardock has a tool, Groupy (https://www.stardock.com/products/groupy/), that allows you make everything a tab.
One of the examples on their website groups all Adobe applications in tabs.
Microsoft also tried to build this into Windows but eventually gave up (https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/23/18512250/microsoft-window...)
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#13As a fan of the Google Play desktop app, these Electron wrappers around Google apps are really flaky and hard to maintain. Google is motivated to break these implementations since they live outside of their direct web ecosystem, and when they break it always takes some time to recover since it's open-source. So you end up still using the browser solution.
What's additionally weird is that you can pull your tabs apart into separate windows to replicate this exact behavior. It's hard to justify why I need an exclusive browser just for one app. For Play it's justified because of tighter integrations with the OS playback keys that the browsers historically have been flaky with, especially when you're using other apps.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
You need a window manager/virtual desktops, not the insecurity doing everything in the browser brings.
Well, to be more specific -- I want the OS itself to be a full-screen tab container with multiple spaces/desktops (and add tiling, and popping out tabs like floating windows, as advanced usage). And then each tab is an app or app document window. So I could have a Chrome tab next to a Firefox tab if I wanted. Browser tabs would be peers next to other apps. None of this is about security, or running apps in the browse…
Have you tried i3 on Linux? It’s probably not exactly what you’re thinking of, but you can use it very similarly.
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
You need a window manager/virtual desktops, not the insecurity doing everything in the browser brings.
Well, to be more specific -- I want the OS itself to be a full-screen tab container with multiple spaces/desktops (and add tiling, and popping out tabs like floating windows, as advanced usage). And then each tab is an app or app document window. So I could have a Chrome tab next to a Firefox tab if I wanted. Browser tabs would be peers next to other apps. None of this is about security, or running apps in the browse…
i3 can do all that and more If you’re willing to switch to Linux or a BSD.
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#16What is the deal with Google's syncing apps?
"Backup and Sync" still misses features like Files On-Demand/Smart Sync available in OneDrive/Dropbox and deleting files online pollutes the local trash/recycle bin on macOS/Window computers.
"Drive File Stream" actually has these lazily loaded file placeholders, but it is treated like an additionally mounted volume instead of a local folder somewhere on my local disks. It also managed to occupy over 60 GiB RAM for over a week during its initial sync which had lots of small files created by Arq Backup.
It seems like 'unlimited' cloud storage is foremostly limited by the performance characteristics of their sync clients.
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#17What is the deal with Google's syncing apps? "Backup and Sync" still misses features like Files On-Demand/Smart Sync available in OneDrive/Dropbox and deleting files online pollutes the local trash/recycle bin on macOS/Window computers. "Drive File Stream" actually has these lazily loaded file placeholders, but it is treated like an additionally mounted volume instead of a local folder somewhere on my local disks. It…
They even have a ~~missing features~~ comparison page:
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#18Better make one for Linux :)
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#19I guess I just don't get how this is different / better than making a desktop chrome shortcut that opens into a new window? It gives the appearance of running as an independent app.
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#20What is the deal with Google's syncing apps? "Backup and Sync" still misses features like Files On-Demand/Smart Sync available in OneDrive/Dropbox and deleting files online pollutes the local trash/recycle bin on macOS/Window computers. "Drive File Stream" actually has these lazily loaded file placeholders, but it is treated like an additionally mounted volume instead of a local folder somewhere on my local disks. It…
I made the mistake of copying a node project I was working on.... holy cow does Backup and Sync choke on all those tiny JavaScript files.
It started syncing and just couldn't stop.
I had to delete or move all the Backup and Sync contents across my devices to get to 0 before it quit endlessly thrashing.