DesktopGPT 1.0 Release Feedback Thread

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With the DesktopGPT 1.0 release today, we are creating this thread so that users can report any observed issues.  

Obtaining Object Desktop Insider Builds

Object Desktop Manager

Object Desktop members can get beta and Insider builds from within Object Desktop Manager with 'Enable Object Desktop Insider builds' enabled:

Stardock Download Page

Or via their download page in the ‘Object Desktop Insider’ section

Reporting an issue

Please include the following for anything found:

  • Exact Windows version \ build (winver.exe)

  • Detailed steps to recreate the issue seen

  • Screenshots and videos are very helpful.  Videos can be uploaded to a cloud drive service (GoogleDrive, DropBox, OneDrive, YouTube), with a shared link included in your post.  Images can be copied and pasted directly into a post.

  • If there are specific apps that the app does not work (well) with, please note what apps and their exact versions.  If any app is not common, a link to a trial version would be appreciated.

  • Log files for DesktopGPT

    For log files, please go here:

    C:\Users\[EnterYourWindowsAccountHere]\AppData\Local\Stardock\DesktopGPT

    You are going to want to insert your Windows account name (no brackets) in that path - you can then paste it into Windows Explorer and it should go directly there:

As shown, we want the: DesktopGPT_Log.txt file.  You can upload it to a cloud drive service of your choice (OneDrive, GoogleDrive, PasteBin, etc) and post a shared link to it in a reply post.  Please do not post the entire raw text in a reply. 

 

Thank you for your interest and any time you put into making DesktopGPT a better product.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

DesktopGPT 1.0 Changelog (Released 11/13/2024)

11/13/2024

Version

  • UI: 1.0.0

  • DesktopGPT.exe: 1.0.0.0

Platforms

  • Stardock (Object Desktop Insider Only)

Changes

Please see the release post:

https://www.stardock.com/news/531943/stardock-releases-desktopgpt-10-a-new-app-for-bringing-ai-to-the-desktop

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Known issues

While we appreciate all feedback, please remember that we offer no official support for beta \ preview \ developer channel versions of Windows. If you report issues while in any of those early release channels, you should not expect them to be addressed unless it still exists in a retail version of Windows.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

***Reserved***

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Excellent - so far, so good - the history works for me now and has kept all the old entries.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I have not seriously looked at this product because of the UI. What are you thinking? Couldn't you at least put it inside a basic dialog box so I minimize it, move it, close it? I have two displays and would put on the second display.

Just tested 1.0 and well I finally found a sweet spot to drag the box but there is no visible reinforcement of it. The drag bar is not the outline!

Discovered that if I clicked the drop down box and and options I get a fully realized dialog box.

Are the two workarounds really how to present the product. Who is the marketing product manager?

Frank

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting frankdeming, reply 5

I have not seriously looked at this product because of the UI. What are you thinking? Couldn't you at least put it inside a basic dialog box so I minimize it, move it, close it? I have two displays and would put on the second display.

Just tested 1.0 and well I finally found a sweet spot to drag the box but there is no visible reinforcement of it. The drag bar is not the outline!

Discovered that if I clicked the drop down box and and options I get a fully realized dialog box.

Are the two workarounds really how to present the product. Who is the marketing product manager?

Frank

Thank you for the positive feedback, Frank, I will pass it along.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

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Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Couldn't agree more, Would love if this app functioned more like OneDrive, DropBox, etc. Where it had a popup window from the Task bar, or the ability to change how large the current screen is, dark theme is always an added bonus! 

Would also love Ollama Support in place/along side of OpenAI.

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

I have a trial version of ObjectDock and so also DesktopGPT. I am using the GPT-4 model, and sometimes the GPT-4o model.

I am enjoying testing it out, using it for getting information about coding with Python and other programming tools in Foundry Nuke. This is a pretty niche area. :-)

However, I am often getting very garbled output.

It will often cut off the top sets of lines.

For instance this is the top part of some output.

the current pixel's x and y coordinates, respectively. The kernel then inverts the color of each pixel by subtracting each color component from 1.0.

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you to write custom effects. It's designed to be fast and efficient for high-end visual effects production.

Its missing the top number of lines that should be there. 

And the next two paragraphs are garbled.  Text within text.

I ASSUME that Chat GPT-4 wouldn't return such garbled text....

If I run the exact same command again, it will usually return information that is not garbled.

Here is an example. You can see that the text is not the same, garbled or not. But the information is relevant.

get_global_id is a function used in Blink Script within The Foundry's Nuke, a node-based digital compositing application. Blink Script is used for writing custom image processing operations in Nuke, allowing for high-performance, GPU-accelerated effects.

In the context of Blink Script, get_global_id is a function that returns the global ID of the current processing element (such as a pixel) that the script is operating on. This is particularly useful in parallel computing contexts, such as when running on a GPU, where you need to know the specific element (e.g., pixel) out of a larger set (e.g., an image) that the current thread or work-item is tasked with processing.

The function typically takes a single integer argument, which specifies the dimension (0 for x, 1 for y in a 2D image) of the global ID you are querying.

Not sure what to make of this...

I do know that its wasting my tokens, because usually the garbled return is useless for understanding what's going on, and it also often garbles the actual example code.

The template and command I'm using are as follows:

I'm using an Inline Template

Shortcut: /nuke 

AI Directive: Return information about The Foundry Nuke application. Using TCL, Python, Blink Script, and the Nuke Python API. Assume knowledge of the Nuke interface. Give example code, and say if this applies to specific versions of Nuke.

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Example command: 

/nuke What is get_global_id in Blink script?

 

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Yes, I also (randomly?) get scrambled text responses. I rarely use DesktopGPT because of this and its weird UI.

 
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