Can anybody explain my why the fuck EVERYTHING has to be made into an computer-app, even tho it already has a perfectly capable web-interface? Looking at you WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack etc...

Especially when it's basically just the webinterface with a (more or less) fancy electron wrapper slapped on it.

corporate enviroments is the only reason.

You definitely have a point but there are legitimate reasons like certain functions that maybe browsers don't support. Cuz with web apps you can't really guarantee anything about the browser the user might be using.

Maybe they want to have better control over notifications, or the ability for high quality audio recording. Maybe you need access to information from device sensors like accelerometers. Some browsers will give you that, some not.

You can't really rely on web browsers to have all the functions you need, so a lot of the time the web app doesn't have the more advanced functions, and they put those in the desktop version because they can trust that Electron will handle that. There's no ambiguity as to what browser is used.

If that makes any sense?

@three333 That's why you either hack together a minimalist .desktop file (Linux) or just drag the tab to the start menu/desktop (Windows)

@gathurian Hm nope, still too much work. That's gonna take, like, at least 50 milliseconds, and I'm on a really tight schedule. Oh well, desktop app it is.