While I was looking for a desktop integration for google chrome i found the following to articles:
http://www.brighthub.com/computing/linux/articles/36842.aspx which describes how to use alltray and prism to integrate google tasks with you gnome panel.
and
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-access-your-google-tasks/ which describe how to use chrome’s feature to create a desktop shortcut to a web-application.
if you combine them both u can use the following command to create an integrated google task view in your gnome-panel:
alltray /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --app="http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1"
(alltray can be installed by using apt-get install alltray)
Just tried it, simple and straight forward. It syncs online as well!
Thanks, A
If you use chromium:
alltray /usr/bin/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″
alltray /usr/bin/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″
On Ubuntu 11.10 I just get a lot of errors but no success…
$ alltray /usr/bin/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591263350:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591264313:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591266865:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591268308:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591270078:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591271867:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591276692:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591383529:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591384842:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser –app=”http://mail.google.com/tasks/ig?pli=1″: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
[2850:2850:591387394:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(124)] Gtk: Failed to load type module: (null)
`menu_proxy_module_load’: alltray: undefined symbol: menu_proxy_module_load
(alltray:2848): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to load type module: (null)
[3:3:602291468:ERROR:phishing_classifier.cc(213)] Classification in progress, missing call to CancelPendingClassification
Hi Fran,
I’m not using ubuntu as a desktop anymore, so I’m afraid I can’t give an update about how it works in ubuntu 11.10
Hope you will find your answer, and if so please leave it as a comment for other people.
Cheers
Job
I’m using 11.10, and alltray works fine with chromium-browser here.
To follow up my comment: even though alltray seemed to work fine for a moment, it’s not working in a useful way. alltray doesn’t show a tray icon if Chrome or Chromium have been already running and only opens a new window, and alltray doesn’t start at all if the browser wasn’t already running.