GoogleDesktop

From openSUSE

Google Desktop is a Desktop Search Software made by Google to search user's e-mails, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and other "Google Gadgets."

It is closed-source and is free for non-commercial use. For linux it is available in the following formats:- RPM Format(x86/x86-64) DEB Format(x86/x86-64)

Download & Installation

SUSE Linux 11.0

Installation under openSUSE 11.0 is simple.

1. Using the link below, navigate to the Linux download for RPM.
2. Download the Needed RPM
3. When the download is complete.
4. Open a Terminal and type

 rpm -Uvh filename.rpm

1. Installation completes.

Setting Preferences

1. Firstly in Local Indexing We can Specify the Search Locations and the items to be indexed.
2. We can even exclude some folders from being indexed. This is really helpful if we do not want to index some files which are private or confidential.
3. In the Second Tab of Preferences window there is an option to index even a gmail account. To use this feature we need to provide a valid user name and password.
4. The Third tab is the "Display" tab where we can configure the hot key combination for the Google Desktop Apps and also some other useful features such as no. of searches to be displayed per page or Google Integration etc.
5. Lastly in the "Other" Tab we can opt to send anonymous usage data to Google for further improvement and enhancement of the software

External Links

Google Desktop For Linux

Alternatives

• Beagle