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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon jenslind

Linux support

Open sindresorhus opened this issue 9 years ago • 8 comments

sindresorhus avatar Jun 07 '15 15:06 sindresorhus

elo jens!

@sindresorhus: It's a bit more complicated since Linux is so flexibe. There are many desktop environments/window managers to take into consideration. A start would probably be KDE & Gnome. That should be fairly easy as well.

linde12 avatar Jun 08 '15 11:06 linde12

We're using Electron here, so Piglet can easily support what it supports, and I'm pretty sure it supports any Linux distro.

sindresorhus avatar Jun 08 '15 11:06 sindresorhus

But electron would still require some API to access the native window manager's task bar. It's possible with Windows and Mac because they only have one window manager. However, as said, it's probably easy to do it for KDE/Gnome. Maybe there already is an API for those two.

linde12 avatar Jun 08 '15 12:06 linde12

@linde12 for unity should be simple also.

andersoonweb avatar Jun 08 '15 13:06 andersoonweb

@andersonweb: agreed! Then it'd the major linux DE's!

linde12 avatar Jun 08 '15 13:06 linde12

Yeah ! @linde12

andersoonweb avatar Jun 08 '15 13:06 andersoonweb

Well, we are limited to what is implemented in Electron. The Electron tray docs page has listed some limitations.

jenslind avatar Jun 08 '15 14:06 jenslind

But it looks good. Gtk support.

linde12 avatar Jun 08 '15 14:06 linde12