Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron

Post by CMay » Sat, May 16, 2020, 1:31 PM UTC

marton_s wrote: post #76

CMay wrote: post #39

This not being an official release from Google, using this is potentially worse than giving someone your Google password without fully vetting it. There are some existing safeguards in place to make a password alone difficult to use, but the app itself would have signed in access to your account and the contents of files. You may think it's simple to watch the app for bad behavior and decide it's safe, but you wouldn…

Google does actively prevent "embedded browser" apps - especially shady ones - from stealing Google passwords or other credentials https://security.googleblog.com/2019/04/better-protection-ag... Electron is known to be affected: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/22346#issuecomme... The author of Google Drive Desktop seems to be aware but I do not think anyone can win this race against Google: https://github…

Post by lonelappde » Sat, May 16, 2020, 2:04 PM UTC

domsom wrote: post #60

crazygringo wrote: post #10

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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…

Sounds like Ubuntu's Unity to me. My 2 cents: Now that I'm using two 4K panels I very much enjoy having 4 windows side-by-side (optionally even splitting those vertical "columns" horizontally to hold 2 windows). No more task switching, all I need is always visible - I personally wouldn't opt for a tab-based full-screen WM.

Post by lonelappde » Sat, May 16, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

bzb3 wrote: post #4

ripvanwinkle wrote: post #2

This is handy. Another alternative on Windows is to create a separate chrome profile and then create a desktop shortcut to that profile. Set the default page to be your drive in that profile Here's an example shortcut "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --profile-directory="Profile 2" Use that profile as your Drive app

When you create a new profile you're asked to put a shortcut in your desktop, you don't need to create it by hand.

Post by jhoechtl » Sat, May 16, 2020, 2:39 PM UTC

simonklitj wrote: post #75

pier25 wrote: post #29

Respectfully... what is the point of this? 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?

I'm guessing it's for people that want the Google products to be their main desktop office suite. Haven't looked into it, but maybe it can open .docx files etc. directly as the default app for it?

Post by CMay » Sat, May 16, 2020, 3:45 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #64

CMay wrote: post #55

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It wouldn't matter how you signed in for potential abuse to occur if the app itself is untrusted, unfortunately. The repository doesn't include all of the code that gets included in the app, because it has dependencies. It links those dependencies on the github page, but you have to verify that the dependencies being linked to are the ones the build actually uses. Then check that you like what's in those dependencies…

> It wouldn't matter how you signed in for potential abuse to occur if the app itself is untrusted, unfortunately. > The repository doesn't include all of the code that gets included in the app, because it has dependencies.* > Software is guilty until proven innocent I'm not saying you're wrong about any of this, and I don't trust this app myself (mostly because JS dependencies are hard to trust for various reasons),…