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I made an app to install websites as desktop applications on Linux (codeberg.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Did you just re-invent Progressive Web Applications?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago

Don't think so, websites themselves have to implement pwa's, you can't force it client side

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

WebKit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not saying I disagree, but what specifically would you prefer? Gecko? Or is there something better? (Maybe I'm just engaging in wishful thinking asking if there's something better.)

[–] onlinepersona 2 points 6 months ago

I don't wish the pain of Gecko upon any non-Mozilla dev. That shit is terrible (and terribly documented).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Can you share some info about it? I don't get any info on the page on codeberg without reading the code. What engine does it use?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Made with Gtk4, WebKitGTK, libadwaita and Flatpak.

WebKit based, which is interesting. I don't have much experience with WebKit on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

thank you. I must've been sleeping.

WebKit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Gecko is very difficult to adapt to standalone apps and servo isn’t ready yet. what would you rather they use? Chromium?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

why can't I see my comment when I browse lemmy.ml without being logged in?

The post got upvoted so someone must have been able to see it.

There is even another post from someone on lemmy.zip

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

lol, I was doing exactly the same, mostly because the gnome app for it (webapp-manager) does not do one thing I badly want : open all non-app links in the default browser and not on instances of itself. Also, I love the webkitgtk project and this allows me to give it an usage.
I will give a look at your project, I think is better contribute to it than have two (or more) projects doing the same 😜

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 6 months ago

Good job 👍 Looks very well done!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Does it support socks proxy for individual web apps?