Signal Desktop beta now publicly available

Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available by vemy on Thursday April 07, 2016 @05:39PM (#11450932)

A Chrome Extension is not a Desktop application.

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Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available by Longhanks on Thursday April 07, 2016 @05:55PM (#11451015)

This annoys me so much. Since when are websites tied to a specific browser "desktop apps"?

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Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available by qznc on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:31AM (#11453148)

Since most people cannot distinguish them from native apps. It has its own icon/menu entry. It opens its own window. Quacks like a duck.

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Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available by unhammer on Saturday April 09, 2016 @04:24AM (#11460476)

I missed minimise-to-taskbar; made a temporary workaround: https://gist.github.com/unhammer/d970780be79a3121a48ccc8049f...

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Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:08AM (#11453269)

Chrome is just the framework. Would an application written in Qt or .NET count as a "desktop application" by your definition? Chrome seems like a pretty sensible choice for a team with limited resources considering its portability and large existing install base.

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Re:Signal Desktop beta now publicly available by cm3 on Friday April 08, 2016 @09:40AM (#11454559)

Qt or .Net will integrate with your desktop properly.

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