Integrate Google Wave into your OS X system with Fluid
Want to have Wave as a standalone application, with a badge that reflects the number of unread waves?
Follow these steps:
- Download the excellent Fluid.app
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Run it and create a new application like this:
Download the icon I used here and make sure to select it in the appropriate dialog dropdown.
- Launch the application. When Wave loads for the first time, it’ll think you’re using an unsupported browser. This is not true, since Fluid.app is Webkit-based. Disregard this message and press continue. Google will remember this setting.
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To get the badge count functionality, I developed this userscript. Unzip it, go to the Google Wave applications, find the plugins menu and click Browser Usersripts Folder. Drop the file there and then make sure it’s enabled.
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One last useful setting for any Fluid.app you create is to make sure it doesn’t unload the website when you press
⌘ + W. Make sureonly hides the windowis checked:
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Thanks for the instructions, userscript and icon, all works great.
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jd808 4 months ago
I have everything up and running but whenever I click on a wave, it will always open up in Safari which is my default browser. I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. Any ideas??
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Guillermo Rauch 4 months ago
No idea. Try going to preferences, and check the list of URLs.
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Stephen 4 months ago
I am not having any luck. It was working before. Then I drag a music file onto it, which broke this. Now all it loads is a about:blank page. Help! I use Wave for work and this is an invaluable tool!
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Go to View > Show Toolbar. Point the URL again to wave.google.com
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,..] devthought.com is one another nice source of information on this topic,..]
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Igor 4 months ago
Is it just me , but fluid google wave is using loads of memory!
I was looking at memory usage and I noticed that it starts with 256 mb of memory and then it is just climbing up up to even 400 mb.
I am running snow leopard,
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Eric 4 months ago
My Fluid Wave install insists on opening all links back in Firefox, my default browser. I double-checked that my Behavior Preferences in Fluid match your screenshot above.
Any thoughts?
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Vano 4 months ago
Thanks a lot for this very good tutorial !!!
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Thank you. My Google Wave experience just got a lot better.
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I did not work immediately, the default browser was started when I used ignore.
This link as URL worked:
https://wave.google.com/wave/?nouacheck&pli=1Thanks for this tip!
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heyudude 4 months ago
It didn’t work immediately, It opened my default browser in stead of the Fluid app.
You have to use the following link for the URL in fluid::
https://wave.google.com/wave/?nouacheck&pli=1Thanks for the tip!
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GiGi 24 days ago
Perfect. My app wouldn’t remember to go on with an unsupported browser, but with this link it works. Great
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Jane Wepomatix 5 months ago
What about WP-o-matic 1.5? Did you forget to release that one? The version we have still makes numerous multiple duplicate posts Can you at least get a fix for that if you are never releasing the 1.5?
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emiliana 5 months ago
oh!
i see
My OSX language is Spanish. changing “aplications” (default location name in fluid) for “aplicaciones” I could create the software. Thank you very much. ❤ -
fluid sais:
Operation could not be completed. Permission denied -
Hey if anyone did not get his google wave invite . You can get from here http://clipsbar.com/waveinvite.I am feeling lucky that i got one from there
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Great article, thanks! A couple of minor notes… instead of “click Browser Usersripts Folder” as indicated in your instructions it should read “click Open Userscripts Folder” (possibly being confused with the adjacent option “Browse Usersripts.org”). Also, once you have placed the script file in the Userscripts folder you need to click “Reload All Userscripts” in order for it to be listed in the scripts menu.
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Thanks very much for the App icon. Script is a bonus, much appreciated! Now if only I could actually find some people to talk to on Wave….
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Thanks for your share. This is a brilliant tip working with Wave.
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francois 5 months ago
Very useful page and advices. I still fail to log in wave (Whatever the URL I use I get to google apps or I got a message my account is not active.
Interestingly I have no prob log-in in wave thru firefox.
Any idea?
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I’m having the same problem. Has anyone figured this one out? I just get a page that says my account hasn’t been activated for Wave yet…but it has. I’ve tried being logged in on Safari (hoping the cookie would be shared), but no luck.
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Thanks for the write-up, particularly the nice icon and userscript!
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Does the userscript still works? Tried it successfully in the beginning, now there is no counter anymore.
I would like to use also the ‘Wave Growl’ - http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/59012
Thanks for your work!
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Jack 5 months ago
Found your page through a Twitter account on Wave - followed your instructions, and can’t thank you enough for this great guide! Appreciate the effort!
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Awesome, thank you!
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Intresting, this was actually a very great read! thanks
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Thanks, now i just have to get a wave invite. Also, I have always wondered how the dock badge on Fluid could be changed so I may edit your script every now and again to use in new SSBs I create. I hope you don’t mind!
I can’t wait to start using Wave!
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This is a great tip, thanks! On an unrelated note, your website looks awesome. I absolutely LOVE the clouds effect at the top. I love it even more that it’s not Flash based. You should write a tutorial for creating it on other websites. Major props!
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Wicked! Thanks for that, already got it spinning in the nice HUD mode: http://qkpic.com/4f7e9
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Jason 5 months ago
How did you do that?!
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In your google wave fluid app:
Preferences -> Appearance -> Window style -> select HUD
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Даа… В некоторые жизненные моменты волосы могут шевелиться и не только на голове