Are there any plans to release a native linux app (not based on electron)? I think this is a really neat project, however, there are so many electron apps these days and they are so…inefficient. especially if you have 2 or more electron apps you use. It just seems really unnecessary to have such a …

[image] Simon: You want to make a webview based java app or a “native” java app? I first wanted to make an app based on a JavaFX web view. I tried that out with another, small web app which was built with Node.js as static HTML with client-side Javascript. Even this simple app had issues in t…

If you are going to implement that or have plans about that, I want to discuss it. Especially the background engine to render pages in the webview (bot or default), QtWebkit and QtWebEngine. I prefer the idea from adb, using PyWebview

The-Compiler wants to start a PyQt based desktop client. “Native” not just embedding a webapp frontend like electron. I meant that we could use the qt webview for ‘delta(web)Apps’ like games, but thats rather far in the future anyway, because now we have the priority to make deltachat stable (especi…

I think @anon93826752 is talking more about web engines used in Delta in general (used for DC clients), including the current Electron one, not only of webview used for bots/games, and when I suggested pywebview, I was not talking about using it for web-apps only, but for the GUI of a DC client

I received the hint that this crate might be useful for you if you want to write a native client in Rust. It should also work on Librem systems. Maybe that’s another option to consider.

I too would prefer a native JavaFX App. In the early times of Android I’ve learned, that Android is a Java platform, so I’m wondering, why it could be difficult to have a Java desktop app.

hi @CoSoCo , first of all: welcome aboard! [image] CoSoCo: In the early times of Android I’ve learned, that Android is a Java platform, so I’m wondering, why it could be difficult to have a Java desktop app. yes, android is java, but apart from that, there are no similarities between android …

Hi, why is DeltaChat core coded with RUST? If I understand right, RUST is specialized for real time processes. It has the speed advantage of C/C++ combined with automatic object destruction, but without the need of an interrupting garbage collector. But DeltaChat is not much more than a text edit…

Bundling a whole android with deltachat makes no sense, the resulting package would be waaaaay bigger than the flatpack dependencies. If you want to use the android version on your desktop gnu/linux you can try https://anbox.io/ . The biggest reason that we migrated the deltachat from C to Rust is t…

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Are there any native linux desktop apps in the works?

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