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In my mind, "Google drive" is storage, "Google docs" is word processing / spreadsheets etc. I have no idea why they brought docs into drive.
I suppose that’s on-brand for an Electron app.
Snark aside, FFmpeg is your friend and a 1-liner plus a tag will reduce this to less than a MB. Your mobile visitors will thank you!
Yet another way that Google's branding creates confusion. I read "Google drive desktop app" and my mind jumped to storage / files, not word processor. In my mind, "Google drive" is storage, "Google docs" is word processing / spreadsheets etc. I have no idea why they brought docs into drive.
I don't find Google's official use of Drive and Docs confusing (there are some overlaps, but in a natural way).
Yet another way that Google's branding creates confusion. I read "Google drive desktop app" and my mind jumped to storage / files, not word processor. In my mind, "Google drive" is storage, "Google docs" is word processing / spreadsheets etc. I have no idea why they brought docs into drive.
Isn't it just the author of this app (it doesn't look affiliated to Google to me)? Probably should call it Google Docs Desktop instead. I don't find Google's official use of Drive and Docs confusing (there are some overlaps, but in a natural way).
What 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.
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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…
It's funny, my version would probably just put every browser tab into a different window and just use a powerful window manager like i3 to deal with everything.
It'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?…
Now I'm starting to think how feasible it would be to embed other desktop apps that people have installed into an electron window or something.
Performance will be similar to using Google Docs on Chrome. Memory usage will be probably worse since you are running another engine besides your browser.
Is it just for the convenience of not having to type the URL on your browser?
What 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.
Also its UI (IIRC written in Python) often fails to load (give you a blank box).