Electron apps on Ubuntu Touch
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@db579
Hi the way to achieve your goal is by utilizing Libertine.
Not sure it will work nicely but Libertine is made so we can run desktop apps with UT. -
Libertine on pinephone was returning errors trying to create even an example container the last time I tried to use it
https://gitlab.com/ubports/community-ports/pinephone/-/issues/133
(gitlab isn't working enough to find the main issue but that's one) -
Is there any chance we will be able to compile/run electron apps natively in Ubuntu Touch, with Mir2.0 through Wayland?
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@pparent VSCodium has been working since 16.04. I think it's in the store.
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@ikoz said in Electron apps on Ubuntu Touch:
VSCodium
But how does it work? Does it uses Xmir? It requires to be unconfined, I see.
Currently I cannot compile and run natively any electron app, as an UT app that runs seamlessly right? In particular I cannot run natively Signal-Desktop, which would be a quite important addition to Ubuntu Touch.
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@pparent It's open source: https://github.com/fredldotme/vscodium-click-packaging.
From quick look it bundles all the needed libraries in the click and is unconfined, so not ideal, -
@ikoz I don't think the VSCode click is unconfined because it is an electron app. I think it is unconfined because it is a code editor which needs to be able to access different parts of the filesystem to be useful.
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@arubislander IIRC, all desktop apps based on a framework other than Qt are currently uconfined, but Mir 2 should fix that (see the discussion around the problem for uWolf).
If it were unconfined just to access the filesystem directly (without content hub), it would use the separate read/write access policy. -
@ikoz said in Electron apps on Ubuntu Touch:
IIRC, all desktop apps based on a framework other than Qt are currently uconfined, but Mir 2 should fix that (see the discussion around the problem for uWolf).
This is not the case. uFirefox on Noble, for instance, is strictly confined.
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@db579 yes, I am experimenting with one now. It's absolutely possible.
You can bundle it for arm64 and wrap into .click with clicable. Then install with OpenStore. -
Just a quick question: anyone knows if there is a particular difficulty to build Signal-desktop (Electron app) as a .click package? Because this would be a major addition to Ubuntu Touch. Knowing that Mobian have binaries and build scripts for ARM ( https://github.com/0mniteck/Signal-Desktop-Mobian )
(And after we could certainly tweak the interface to make it responsive, like it is done on whatsapp web which is a very similar interface.)
