Comments on: Quickie: Disable shift-shift for Google Desktop

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:03:06 +0000

The info doesn’t apply because there is no longer an option, anywhere, to turn off double shift.
They have deliberately removed it.

What does it take to get a working desktop gadget application?
There seems to be nothing out there.
I need my email sent directly to my desktop, I need my calendar events right there at all times.

I do NOT need bs from Google about a stupid hotkey fail that gets in the way of EVERY other task I do.

What does it take? really?

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:57:08 +0000

This info no longer applies. Apparently google wants to make it annoying as hell and force us to use double shift.

What idiot thought that was a good idea in the first place?

By: bill

bill — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:24:14 +0000

“even on the google desk top.”
should read
“even on the google desk top web page at
for google desktop help at groups.google.com”
s in
http://groups.google.com/group/google-desktop_something-broken/browse_thread/thread/cb3d0018581b0497

By: bill

bill — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:14:35 +0000

this clearly worked once upon a time, but google has updated the interface.

There seems to be some very peristant confusion between double shift and double ctrl, even on the google desk top.
these instructions now give you two ways to get to the same options page, which ha a way to turn off the double-ctrl, but not the double shift.

It would be helpful if the double shift etc hotkeys were actually hotkeys in the sense they gave you a quick way to get to a menu item, but as near as i can tell if you turn off the hot key sequence, you disable the feature. there is no alternative way to make the gadgets come and go. (hide and unhide).

By: Sieghard

Sieghard — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:48:31 +0000

Thank you very very much!!!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:37:02 +0000

Thanks a ton. I thought I saw something for disabling it somewhere, but forgot about disabling the gadget task bar. It’s been driving me nuts for months.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:09:30 +0000

Haha, man. I hope Ben comes back and turns this into a feature request to redo the key config stuff.

Every other Windows app out there that has global hotkeys has a dialog to configure them. Google Desktop has been out for how many years now?

By: George

George — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 21:37:35 +0000

This is awesome! However, despite Ben’s comment I am having the following difficulty

So the shift-shift invoke is indeed a pain, and is now banished.
However the esc-esc invoke, despite being switched on in preferences now doesn’t work (either with or without the google icon showing)
And the Win-Space invoke for gadgets (which is much harder to accidentally trigger, and is great) also doesn’t work.

So now I’ve gone from too sensitive an invoke, to none at all. Being brought up on Goldilocks, I wonder if there is something to suit the middle bear?

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:40:18 +0000

Thanks for the updates Ben.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:36:00 +0000

I actually had one more comment…

Just keep in mind that you now have no way to bring undocked gadgets to focus with both the hotkey and the gadgets button disabled. You may want to enable at least the gadget icon (smaller footprint than the text button) so you can still use this feature.

Cheers,
Ben
Google Desktop Guide at the Google Desktop Help forum
http://groups.google.com/group/google-desktop