Comments on: Google Sidebar vs. Desktop Sidebar

By: KFunk

KFunk — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:06:37 +0000

Hm.. I’ve never heard of Desktop Sidebar. I think in this day and age, a better comparison would be Yahoo Widgets vs Google Gadgets vs Vista Gadgets vs Samurize vs Rainmeter.

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Another (simpler) way to view RSS » Computer Help — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:31:24 +0000

[…] There is a good comparison between the two, at: Hmm. […]

By: Ralph Smole

Ralph Smole — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:46:49 +0000

Desktop sidebar is MUCH faster and uses MUCH less memory than any other sidebar out there(including google.) I love it!

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:49:41 +0000

Hey, i have been using sidebars, until I saw someone comment here about KlipFolio, i recommend this to everyone! its amazing

By: rue

rue — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:11:03 +0000

I liked DS a lot when I was still using Windows as my main OS, especially because of what you mentioned: Outlook integration and a very nice RSS reader.

Now I switched to Ubuntu Linux, and a decent sidebar (or any sidebar at all) is what I am really missing. Espc. with this new widescreen display

Any hints on a Gnome deskbar? The one from screenlets doesn’t count!

By: Ashish

Ashish — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:39:32 +0000

What about privacy breach by google desktop?
Why everything on Google-Desktop has to go to their server/website, even our settings,etc. and there is no option to opt-out too!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 09 May 2007 19:19:39 +0000

I disagree with your rating for several reasons. I love the GUI of the Google sidebar and would like to use it but there are so many things it doesn’t do. First of all, even on the things it does do, most of the desktop sidebar panels are more evolved and allow higher levels of customization. Google doesn’t even have a quicklinks panel, you have to download a separate product and it still isn’t nearly as good as the DS version. Secondly, the slideshow panel on DS is far better than the comparable version on the Google Desktop sidebar. You can even use Javascript to write your own slideshows, which is a great benefit. For instance, I have written one to pull all of the CNN top stories along with their text. I haven’t found a way to do something like this in the Google version. Also, Google allows you to download web photos but not control how often they are pulled or even to give them our own titles like you can in DS. DS has another cool panel that lets you grab the window from any application. I use this to grab the window from Trillian so I can have my favorite chat client in the window.

The google sidebar also seemed slower when pulling photos from the web and didn’t cache them. Every time I stop and start the application, I see that lengthy “downloading” message while it re-gets all of the photos. ALthough they have made an excellent start, it will be quite a long time before they support as much or offer the levels of customization that DS does.

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O’Flaherty - » Sidebars, widgets, time wasting — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:50:43 +0000

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Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:44:52 +0000

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By: jer1ch0

jer1ch0 — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:32:13 +0000

I use the Google Sidebar. Most of the time it is hidden, but I can access it from the taskbar. It’s important to me because of the search facility - it really is good, and this should have been an option in your comparsion.
Has anyone got any opinons on this?