Re:GitHub Desktop 1.0
by tedivm on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @01:08PM
(#15286505)
Yeah, I tried the new version a week ago and was very unhappy with it. Even ignoring the electron stuff there's a lot of issues-
* A lot of the right-click context menus have vanished from the old version to the new, which really changes the workflow.
* Integration with Atom is super buggy, to the point where it literally doesn't work for me. I used to be able to right click and open in Atom, but now if I use the shortcut to open in Atom it just gives an error claiming Atom isn't installed when it is. Opening up the old github desktop app and attempting to launch atom had no issues.
* Integration with Github itself is super flaky. Normally the "open in desktop" launches the github desktop client, but after installing the new version it literally doesn't do anything at all.
I'm honestly really surprised that this is a v1.0.0 release. Normally Github does a better job of making sure their releases, well, actually work.
* A lot of the right-click context menus have vanished from the old version to the new, which really changes the workflow.
* Integration with Atom is super buggy, to the point where it literally doesn't work for me. I used to be able to right click and open in Atom, but now if I use the shortcut to open in Atom it just gives an error claiming Atom isn't installed when it is. Opening up the old github desktop app and attempting to launch atom had no issues.
* Integration with Github itself is super flaky. Normally the "open in desktop" launches the github desktop client, but after installing the new version it literally doesn't do anything at all.
I'm honestly really surprised that this is a v1.0.0 release. Normally Github does a better job of making sure their releases, well, actually work.