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Re:Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app by wojtekmach on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:27PM (#32323861)
Right, so our goal was to allow configuring the bundle with app icons etc and importantly custom URL schemes and file types [1]. And then macOS- [2] and Windows- [3] specific launchers capture the "open file" and "open url" events and trigger the Elixir side of things. Another reason for native launchers is if for any reason we couldn't start the Elixir side, we want to let the user know that something went wrong and point to logs. (We have that on Mac and will have on Windows very soon.)

[1]: https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/920f70817efbac...

[2]: https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/920f70817efbac...

[3]: https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/blob/920f70817efbac...

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Re:Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app by powersurge360 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:38PM (#32324001)
I know linux is a future supported platform but as far as I'm aware, there's not a clear unified way to build bundles in this way across linux distributions. What kind of things are you folks considering if you don't mind my curiosity.
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Re:Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app by wojtekmach on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:55PM (#32324187)
We don't plan to add Linux support ourselves at the moment but we'd love a contribution.
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Re:Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app by mercer on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @05:18AM (#32329436)
are there any plans to also have LiveBook open up in a separate wrapper app, like Electron?
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