Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
by vladvasiliu on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:20AM
(#30360253)
While I fully agree with your issues, and have experienced them too, (although comparing v8 on Linux to v7 on Mac – I don't use 1Password on Windows), those are just UI/integration issues. I don't think they're because of electron, but rather because the remake of the UI is poor.
FWIW, my main gripe is having to unlock each vault separately, as opposed to a single unlock as used to be the case on Mac / iPhone.
> those are just UI/integration issues. I don't think they're because of electron
Electron makes integration harder.
Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
by carlhjerpe on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:41PM
(#30363031)
Why? You don't have to use Electron for everything, you can integrate using whatever language you want and some RPC, like Keybase did.
And that's still more involved (and slower) than "just use this function that desktop vendors helpfully provided for the purpose".
Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
by carlhjerpe on Sunday February 20, 2022 @10:56AM
(#30406634)
That one part yes, but if you can build most of your application cross-platform and only do certain things with "native" solutions you might get better bang for the buck. Discord and VS Code comes to mind.
Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)
by vladvasiliu on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @12:26PM
(#30362769)
Fair enough, but I expect browser integration and so forth to be done via the backend, which is rust, so native.
Rust is hardly a "desktop-native" language. I expect it will have to jump through all sorts of hoops to interface with the Obj-C underpinnings of MacOS desktop libraries.
Regardless, even if the backend were pure Obj-C, the point is still that now you have a UI stack and a backend stack, instead of a single desktop-native stack, and you have to manage their communications. But I guess the money they save by not managing desktop-specific codebases eventually adds up...
* Search is just plain broken. This was the number one reason i scrapped it. * Managing multiple vaults (i have over a dozen) is unusable. * The UI is terrible, it takes way more space to show less information than 7. * The browser integration (FF) seemed to work poorly.
Basically, once 1Password stops supporting 7, they will have lost me and anyone I can influence as a customer.