Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
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Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#2This 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
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#3This 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
Now _that_ is handy.
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#4This 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.
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#5> Want a Microsoft Word-esque experience for your Google Drive? Or simply looking to separate Google Drive from the other bajillion tabs that you opened for your research paper? Look no further!
Well first of all, I'd pretty much rather have a shortcut that can be opened in any browser I'd want to use, than to download another copy of Chrome dedicated to running the Google Drive web app as its own 'app' using Electron.
Secondly, Chrome supports grouped tabs which allows you to organise your tabs anyway which sounds great over having 3 - 4 separate Electron apps trying to behave like MS Office (Just don't).
And last but not least, Unlike MS Office, this requires a persistent internet connection to function. So if your internet is down, your wonderful Google Drive electron app will look like this: [0]
[0] https://twitter.com/rhysforyou/status/1260361296551178240
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#6It would be nice if it didn't do the 'unsigned app' dance on a Mac.
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#7It'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? Word? Preview? Spotify? Photoshop? My code editor? I just want them (or each document in them) as tabs next to other webpages and/or each other. (For Photoshop and code, I'll probably organize my own window/space for them, but still open up webpages next to my images/code.)
Having tabs and a dock feels redundant in 2020, like two competing paradigms that just need to be refactored into one by now.
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#8It'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?…
Isn't that effectively what we had with windows circa 1995?
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#9It'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?…
You need a window manager/virtual desktops, not the insecurity doing everything in the browser brings.
Re: Google Drive Desktop – A cross-platform Google Drive desktop app made w Electron
#10It'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?…
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 browser. Just using tabs as the main concept for everything, rather than windows.