Chromium & Electron

nero355

Why do you want to get something as horrible as Electron and Chromium running in/under/on Ubuntu Touch ?!

Please, please, PLEASE stick to Native and Google FREE apps (or even better : Native Applications) if you are considering developing something for Ubuntu Touch

Lakotaubp

@nero355 Again your opinion. Others are free to try what they want. It is free opensource after all. The question would have been fine if left at "why do you want to get Electron and Chromium running on UT?"

Please carry on joining in on the Forum but stop the "Please dont, i dont like, why are you bothering with that" type of comment. It's not helpful and is getting boring. Your opinion is well known now and others might not think it is necessarily the right one.

nero355

@lakotaubp
I happen to know plenty of developers who agree with me so maybe you should do some searching/investigating before replying something like that ?!

Lakotaubp

@nero355 Then you are more than welcome to go and have a deep one sided conversation with them on another forum. This forum is open to all UT users who are free to use it as and for what they wish and to discuss it in a free and open forum. No one has the right here to shout down or tell someone else how to use UT.
Some ideas maybe seem impracticable not possible or many number of other things and that will come out in the discussion that is what a forum is for. Plus by telling people not to try something you don't know what might be missed. Don't narrow your options or others. It really is time to stop now. Thanks.

nero355

@lakotaubp said in Chromium & Electron:

@nero355 Then you are more than welcome to go and have a deep one sided conversation with them on another forum. This forum is open to all UT users who are free to use it as and for what they wish and to discuss it in a free and open forum. No one has the right here to shout down or tell someone else how to use UT.
Some ideas maybe seem impracticable not possible or many number of other things and that will come out in the discussion that is what a forum is for. Plus by telling people not to try something you don't know what might be missed. Don't narrow your options or others. It really is time to stop now. Thanks.

You should indeed stop your comment and read first what Electron and for example Flutter are and why they are bad for any kind of device they are used on!

Unless you do want a lot of overhead in terms of RAM and CPU usage amongst others then be my guest and use it all the time!

Lakotaubp

@nero355 Please see my comment above.

aarontheissueguy

@nero355 Yo... you dont get the point. You dont have to like Electron/Flutter or whatever. UT is an open OS with a small community of developers. Discouraging people the way you do helps no one.

Electron might not be your choice of application. Fine.

Other people might like it and more options will just result in more devs being motivated to try stuff on UT.

Take my apps for example... Python + QML? An inefficient combination for sure, but it allowed me to write apps that help hundreds of people and I certanly wouldnt be writing them if someone like you would have discouraged me right from the get go and told me it was stupid when I first asked questions about it.

cliffcoggin

@nero355 I have tried to make allowance for English not being your primary language, (despite the extraordinary ability of the Dutch to speak better English than many natives here,) but surely you realise by now that many on this forum resent your attempts to impose your opinions and views on everyone. No amount of silly cartoon faces can soften the criticisms you regularly make.

In a free society and a free forum we all have our own opinions, and to jeer at those that do match yours is insufferable. Please either learn some tact or keep quiet, preferably the latter.

nero355

@aarontheissueguy said in Chromium & Electron:

Take my apps for example... Python + QML? An inefficient combination for sure, but it allowed me to write apps that help hundreds of people and I certanly wouldnt be writing them if someone like you would have discouraged me right from the get go and told me it was stupid when I first asked questions about it.

Still better than basically putting each application into it's own browser window!

I will ignore the rest of your comments because of obvious reasons...

MajesticFudgie

@nero355 The HTML5/WebApp feature for Clickable to create UT app is quite literally putting an application in its own browser window, the only difference is the lack of NodeJS on the backend.

After some playing with regular ReactJS I've been able to make some applications, hopefully webpack will play nice with any modules I like to use in my setup, though generally it always has done.

I doubt the overhead for Electron or Chromium is going to be much different to Morph if ran on the platform due to the fact Morph utilises Qt WebEngine which has Chromium at the core.

I'm not certain what the performance tweaks are and whether they could be applied to Electron.

Ubuntu Touch does support windowed mode so being able to spawn multiple windows (assuming its supported) could be useful in that mode.

Eitherway, I got the input I needed.

Thanks for your responses everyone.

Lakotaubp

@majesticfudgie If you are happy with the answers then please mark as solved https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6311/how-to-ask-a-question-and-then-mark-it-as-solved it will help others looking for answers.

nero355

@majesticfudgie said in Chromium & Electron:

@nero355 The HTML5/WebApp feature for Clickable to create UT app is quite literally putting an application in its own browser window, the only difference is the lack of NodeJS on the backend.

I dislike those too to be honest...