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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by userbinator on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:12PM (#19150037)
I find it amusing that the opening paragraph describes it as a "framework for building cross-platform desktop apps" and then shortly below that in the "Supported Platforms" section it lists one Mac OS and one very specific version of Windows. No Linux at all. Even native Windows apps are more cross-platform than that! (I have written a few which will work on any version of Windows starting at Win95...)
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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by filmor on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:46AM (#19152977)
People are always complaining about Electron for shipping along with every single application, but actually, modern Linux desktop is not that far away from this just by itself. On a relatively standard desktop installation I currently have

- webkit-gtk2 - webkit-gtk3 - qtwebkit - qtwebengine

Additionally I have two Geckos for Firefox and Thunderbird. All of them use skia, which then also gets compiled 6 times in total.

Using Gentoo, I'm a bit sensitive to this sort of thing ;)

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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by patr0nus on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:26PM (#19150102)
I shared your concern before I started the project, and talked about this in the readme's FAQ[0].

[0] https://deskgap.com/#faq

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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by dotancohen on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:33AM (#19152275)
I'm glad to see that you are considering the Qt component. Qt looks good on Gnome, KDE, and other desktops. It is also relatively lightweight for what it offers.
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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by jgillich on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:13AM (#19152178)
The majority of Linux users use a GTK desktop, IMO WebkitGTK would be preferable.
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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by Fnoord on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:50AM (#19154413)
I use a GTK desktop on my Linux desktop computers (Ubuntu/Debian and Kali). However, I prefer Qt applications. They look very well on my GTK desktop.
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Re:Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system web... by Vogtinator on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:54AM (#19153945)
No - that's built on webkit, which is apparently becoming the next IE.
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