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I live in a web browser day to day. I'm constantly in and out of Teamwork, Harvest, Google Drive, Slack, Google Analytics etc etc. Trello is also a core part o

I live in a web browser day to day. I'm constantly in and out of Teamwork, Harvest, Google Drive, Slack, Google Analytics etc etc. Trello is also a core part of our workflow (we're custom software developers) and so Cmd/Ctrl + T to open a new tab and type in "tre"...<Enter> to load Trello is basically muscle memory at this point. All of that is to say, what's the need for a "native" app? I say "native" because it's Electron, which isn't really native per se. But still, why??

reustle 9y ago
I also live in the browser and prefer everything to be in it, but I do know plenty of people who prefer their desktop apps, especially some windows users.
- Brakenshire 9y ago
  Useful for alt-tab.
  - riquito 9y ago
    You can just drag out the tab to popup another window to get a working alt-tab flow
    - mikewhy 9y ago
      On macOS it's slightly different, and the separate chrome windows won't get the same treatment as a separate app.
    - Brakenshire 9y ago
      I'm on Gnome, different windows of the same application get grouped together. Useful to have the different logo, and separate from the browser. No reason this has to require an electron wrapper, you could do it with the 'save to desktop' options, not sure whether any browser actually offers it yet though.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  Some of us Windows users want our apps to be native, otherwise I might just as well use the browser.
harperlee 9y ago
One use case would be to be able to have everything available offline. I don't know if this is supported with this app though, but the main reason Trello is not my main goto software for personal management is that one.
- simonswords82 9y ago
  No it uses Electron which is basically a wrapper for web apps. So no offline mode.
  - realityking 9y ago
    Being an Electron app doesn't preclude an app from working offline. You can ship all the code with the app bundle. Still need to design your application to sync data - that's the hard part.

reustle 9y ago

I also live in the browser and prefer everything to be in it, but I do know plenty of people who prefer their desktop apps, especially some windows users.

Brakenshire 9y ago
Useful for alt-tab.
- riquito 9y ago
  You can just drag out the tab to popup another window to get a working alt-tab flow
  - mikewhy 9y ago
    On macOS it's slightly different, and the separate chrome windows won't get the same treatment as a separate app.
  - Brakenshire 9y ago
    I'm on Gnome, different windows of the same application get grouped together. Useful to have the different logo, and separate from the browser. No reason this has to require an electron wrapper, you could do it with the 'save to desktop' options, not sure whether any browser actually offers it yet though.
pjmlp 9y ago
Some of us Windows users want our apps to be native, otherwise I might just as well use the browser.

harperlee 9y ago

One use case would be to be able to have everything available offline. I don't know if this is supported with this app though, but the main reason Trello is not my main goto software for personal management is that one.

simonswords82 9y ago
No it uses Electron which is basically a wrapper for web apps. So no offline mode.
- realityking 9y ago
  Being an Electron app doesn't preclude an app from working offline. You can ship all the code with the app bundle. Still need to design your application to sync data - that's the hard part.