Google Drive and GNOME — 6 years later
GNOME 3.18 is going to be another milestone in our journey to bring various online services closer to the desktop, but this is one that took us 6 years to reach. You can now access your Google Drive through your favourite GNOME applications and the usual GIO APIs
Thibault Saunier started working on this way back in 2009 as a Google Summer of Code project. I picked it up a year ago, and after a few hiccups along the way and some head scratching — more on that later — it is finally here for you to enjoy. You can either wait for distributions like Fedora Workstation 23 to ship GNOME 3.18, or try the 3.17.92 release candidate tarballs that are coming out next week.
Thanks to Alexander Larsson, Philip Withnall and Ondrej Holy for the endless discussions, code reviews and testing for the last one year.
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This is simply awesome! Nice! 🙂
Kris Thomsen
10 September, 2015 at 12:41
Excellent news and well done! Will definitely try this out when it comes to Debian testing.
Björn Harrtell
10 September, 2015 at 13:15
Truly good news for desktop users. Thanks!
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Good work, and good patience. 🙂
Philip
10 September, 2015 at 20:56
Can this be compiled and ran without tracker?
Markus Rathgeb
10 September, 2015 at 21:57
Tracker shouldn’t influence this at all. So, yes, it should work.
Debarshi Ray
10 September, 2015 at 22:43
This has been an eagerly awaited feature. Thanks so much!!!
BTW, Google drive has only been around for about three years (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/introducing-google-drive-yes-really.html), so I assume the work has been towards rest based storage, in general.
Liam Bulkley
10 September, 2015 at 22:05
I would say database-based, not REST-based, but yes that was one part. The other was Google retiring their older API just after I picked it up. I will write about those in subsequent posts.
Debarshi Ray
10 September, 2015 at 22:45
The work done in 2009 was about Google Docs only, but in principal it was the same thing.
Thibault Saunier
10 September, 2015 at 23:40
Thanks for that Debarshi!
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At the moment libgdata only parses the quotaUsed field from the JSON, which is 0 for shared items that are not part of your Drive. We need to also parse fileSize and add API to access it.
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