1Password for SSH and Git (Beta)

Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta) by Galanwe on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:27AM (#30360349)

How is it different than using a GUI framework like Qt or GTK?

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Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta) by ylyn on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:34AM (#30360460)

Qt and GTK apps don't usually spawn 5 processes, 300-400 MB of RAM, and take 100+ MB of disk space (because they always ship an entire copy of Electron) just to show a small window.

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Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta) by Galanwe on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:32AM (#30361242)

Then it's not electron the problem, it's the way the package was created. There is no reason it couldn't be distributed as a shared library.

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Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta) by seanw444 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:36AM (#30360473)

Are we really comparing the bloat of Chromium to Qt & GTK?

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Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta) by gspr on Thursday February 17, 2022 @05:09AM (#30371449)

They solve the task at hand (cross-platform GUIs), plus some auxiliary tasks like cross-platform FS access etc etc. That's much cleaner and more principled than "screw it, let's ship a browser".

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Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta) by samarthr1 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:36AM (#30360477)

The runtime is much much smaller, fewer layers of.abstractions away?

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Re:1Password for SSH and Git (Beta) by otabdeveloper4 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @09:49AM (#30360644)

If each app bundled its own build of Qt then it wouldn't be.

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