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by vially 5y ago
I've been using it for a couple of months now (by patching the applications which haven't upgraded to Electron 12 yet) and it's been working great for me. Is there anything in particular that is broken and/or missing fro
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by vially 6y ago
I can definitely see the point in choosing XML for the Wayland protocols for the reasons you've mentioned (e.g.: strictly typed information) because one of their purposes is to be able to easily generate bindings and libraries from the
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Show HN: Wayland Explorer – Easily read Wayland protocol documentation online(wayland.app)
44 points by vially 6y ago|6 comments
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by vially 6y ago
I've been trying to learn more about Wayland recently but most of the protocol documentation is found in XML files which makes for a poor reading experience. Therefore I created a website which extracts the data from these protocols an
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by vially 6y ago
> Do any desktop system handle mixed DPI well? This works today out-of-the-box in Wayland as long as the applications are Wayland native (e.g.: not being run through XWayland).
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by vially 6y ago
> and I haven’t heard anyone singing it’s praises yet about how happy they are to use it As is often the case, people are much quicker to go to forums to complain about issues than to sing praises so I'm here to add a data-point try
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by vially 6y ago
Yes, I've been doing this on sway for a couple of months now without any issues.
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by vially 6y ago
This was happening in an Ionic 4 project which was already using the stock tooling of the framework (Angular CLI). But I remember it being worse in Ionic 3 with its custom tooling, so overall things do seem to be improving with time. My fin
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by vially 6y ago
I would not recommend Ionic. I've been using it in a medium sized app for about 3 years now and I get the feeling it's good for getting started, but once your app grows past a certain size it's starting to create more issues
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by vially 6y ago
Spotify is using the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) [1] which is similar to Electron in the sense that they are both based on Chromium but it's not quite the same thing. [1] - https://community.spotify.com/t5/Cl
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by vially 6y ago
I don't use any of those apps so I'm not familiar with their underlying technology but it looks like they are all Electron apps. If that's the case, then yes, screen-sharing should be much easier once they migrate to Electron
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Electron 12 released with Wayland support
47 points by vially 6y ago|6 comments
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Let's Talk about Wayland(dedoimedo.com)
6 points by vially 6y ago|1 comments
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by vially 6y ago
> I guess it would be nice to have Wobbly Windows Wayfire got you covered: https://wayfire.org/
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by vially 6y ago
> X works perfectly for me, and there is nothing I would want it to do that it doesn't do now. Why should it change? I'm not sure whether a program that works for you is a good indication that it no longer needs to change. &g
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by vially 6y ago
> so actual Flutter is just Google NIH syndrome I'm not sure I agree with this assessment but even if this were true I still think it's a good thing that we have an open-source alternative to Qt considering the recent drama abo
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by vially 6y ago
This is one I follow related to adding multi-window support to Flutter: https://flutter.dev/go/desktop-multi-window-support I also found some of the chromium design docs quite interesting: https://www.chromi
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by vially 6y ago
> [...] why they don't allow slower, less power efficient, less secure and less private web engines available on iOS Do you have a source that shows how chromium/edge/firefox/etc are inferior to safari in this regard?
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by vially 6y ago
The input redirection pipe is not necessary either: jq . json | less
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Google Pixel Buds Review: second time's the charm(theverge.com)
2 points by vially 6y ago|0 comments
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by vially 7y ago
> [...] is not a bad thing for your clients Except when you have to pass some of the 30% Apple fee on to your clients.
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by vially 7y ago
I'm currently working on a Wayland Flutter embedder for Linux (the existing GLFW embedder is using X11 so desktop Flutter apps are running through XWayland in Wayland environments).
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Angular 9 has been released(github.com)
6 points by vially 7y ago|0 comments
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by vially 7y ago
Thanks for these great articles. I love your blog and your work on druid. Keep them coming! This is a space I'm very interested in. Having a high-quality, reactive UI toolkit for developing native desktop apps might make it easier for
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by vially 7y ago
Thanks a lot for taking the time to provide some feedback. > 1. Not sure about that, but the default is that it pushes to the stack. Isn't this what anyone would expect? If you assume the stacked navigation model is the right model,
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by vially 7y ago
I haven't used Ionic React, so I can't comment on that, but I've been working on a medium sized Ionic Angular app and I have mixed feelings about it (to the point where if I were to start a new project today I wouldn't u
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Valve Index reveal: The best of VR’s first generation(arstechnica.com)
6 points by vially 7y ago|0 comments
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by vially 8y ago
This is the biggest issue for me as well, but I've mostly learnt to live with it by not scaling the HiDPI display in sway. What I do instead is scale the XWayland applications when possible. For me the only XWayland apps that I want
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by vially 8y ago
This is what the flutter-desktop-embedding [0] project is trying to address. [0] https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding
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AutoPi – Raspberry Pi IoT platform for your car(kickstarter.com)
2 points by vially 9y ago|0 comments

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