Desktop API for Desktop icons

Few days back I tried the Desktop api of Gears. Its really cool option to access the applications by selecting desktop short cuts.

You could use "createShortcut" method and when you invoke it, a dialog will be prompted for user's permission. Once the download is successful, a folder "icons#desktop" will be created. To know about the file locations, refer url.

Initially I tried using icons of size 132x27 & 18x18, but got some error message. However when I tried downloading the icons of size 16x16 and 32x32, I was successful. Not sure if there was any issue with size or the icon itself.

Refer API:
http://code.google.com/apis /gears/upcoming/api_desktop .html

Google Gears recent news:

Google Docs has introduced offline support for a small percentage of users and will make it available for all users in due course. As of now the offline support is only for Google Docs.

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/03/bringing-cloud-with-you.html

You might be aware that Zoho Writer uses Gears for offline functionality.

On related notes refer an interesting post on online applications:

http://blogs.zoho.com/general/standardization-maturity-of-online-suites/

Picasa Web Albums could be viewed in Windows Mobile touchscreen devices and uses Gears for offline support.

http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-good-news-for-mobile.html

You might be aware that my previous post was on launch of Gears for Windows Mobile with Zoho Writer and Buxfer applications.