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in the near future, a daemon function would be interesting

How do you imagine this would work? On phones, generally you expect chat apps to always autostart with the device, and always stay running on the background. I don't think this is the general expectation of desktop users though? :thinking:

@Newbytee I guess that's something that has to be supported by the toolkit instead of the app. And if I'm not mistaken there's still not an official support for a "background mode" in the GNOME platform?

There is some support. Usually a application does trigger something and that something causes gnome then to ask if the application should be allowed to run in the background. It also has a option to later allow or disallow the background execution:

Something like this is especially important on the phone where you would avoid to have the full application running.

Yeah, after some research I found the "background portal" that manages exactly that. The problem is that it works just for flatpak and I'm still not sure how to handle this in non-flatpak environments.

I attach the issue in question: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/3699

It seems that for non-flatpak versions, the last comment from Matthias is the conclusion.

Has this been implemented yet?

Has this been implemented yet?

Not yet. I have some plans for it though, but I don't think it'll be available in a 0.1 release.

Well, Background Apps feature is in mainstream GNOME 44. What about it?

Well, Background Apps feature is in mainstream GNOME 44. What about it?

Unrelated to this issue, apps could already run in background before that feature, that's just a shell UI to display them.