Hi there, I just had a look in the iGoogle gadget directory, but I was no longer able to find the Desktop Gadget listed there, so it looks like Google is no longer promoting the Desktop Gadgets to the iGoogle users. I also tried to key in the URL of a .gg gadget on the "My Gadgets" developer tool and iGoogle came back saying the .gg was not a properly formatted file.
It looks like to me that iGoogle stopper supporting the Desktop Gadget... even though I do not remember seeing any warning about that. As you probably know, the rendering of Desktop Gadgets on iGoogle was done by the Google Desktop application on your local machine. This means that you had to have the Google Desktop installed in order to use the .gg gadget on iGoogle. This is a severe limitation if you want your gadget to be available to the iGoogle user base. Dan or a Googler can probably comment if the support for Desktop Gadget on iGoogle has been dropped, or if this is only because of a current issue. Jerome On Dec 30 2008, 4:31 pm, mpc <[email protected]> wrote: > I've developed a Gadget using the Google Gadget Designer (version > 1.1.0708.17471 to be exact). Created the .gg file and it works fine > on Google Desktop. > > My question is how do I test it out on iGoogle? All the references > I've seen to doing so refer to an XML file (the one containing > ModulePref etc) only the designer created no such file. I have a > main.xml and a main.js and all the images and I understand how it > works with the desktop, but how do I get this to iGoogle? > > From reading various pages there apparently has been an API change, > but to be honest being new to the whole Gadget thing it is very > confusing and frustrating to understand what has changed and how that > impacts publishing to iGoogle. > > It's beginning to look like the Designer Tool only builds for the > Desktop. Is that true? If it is then is there some way to "convert" it > so that I can upload it to iGoogle? If not do I just upload a .gg > file to iGoogle? I've spent a couple of days reading through various > sites with no clear answer so if there is one point me to it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
