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mathix

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    For more context, right now I'm only in the seeding phase. I'm also contacting as much as possible founders of impact projects so they can share they're knowledge, but also NGOs an…

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    Comment #49408910

    Hi HN, I built CommunityFix because I was tired of people's reactions to the world's current problems: "we're doomed" and "one person can't make a difference." I believe everyone h…

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    Comment #42009346

    Yes, that's really stupid

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    Comment #41867201

    Not all websites are PWAs, and on linux those websites shows differently.

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    Comment #41867195

    That's neat!

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    Comment #41860218

    1. Yes 2. This could do the trick for you https://askubuntu.com/a/251738/1163389 make it point to the desktop file that ftwa created in this folder: ~/.local/share/applications

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    Comment #41857971

    FTWA was created for linux in the first place. I then added support for macOS as requested, but yeah on macOS is pretty similar to PWAs.

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    Comment #41857757

    Yes, it's pretty much the same for macOS I guess. On linux it's pretty different, I was using .desktop files over PWAs for years because of their bad UI on Linux.

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    Comment #41857748

    I don't think it qualifies for SetApp, and I want to deliver ot freely.

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    Comment #41857736

    Basically yes, but the shortcut open a frameless browser.

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    Comment #41856413

    This was just a side project, I was using .desktop files to launch some websites and thought it was still pretty unknown by most people. So I created this website.

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    Comment #41856407

    No that's exactly what I wanted to avoid, this would be similar to what electron does.

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    Comment #41856397

    With FTWA apps are still websites, it's just another way of opening them without distractions of the browser frame.

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    Comment #41856006

    It's different in the fact that PWAs needs to be setup by the website's developer.

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    Comment #41851395

    Yes I saw this option as well, but it seems that it's not possible for macOS

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    Comment #41849308

    Thanks! - Yes I could create a second firefox preset for snap installs - I would prefer not to touch such sensible files, but will give instructions on how to do it manually

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    Comment #41849275

    Oh pretty strange, could you please raise on issue on GitHub so I can have any chance of debugging this?

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    Comment #41847549

    Thanks! Will have a look to all the issues one I have a bit more time. And yes I should leave a note about Ctrl+Q has I've got myself too

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    Comment #41845910

    Thanks! Yes I didn't realized I don't speak about this on the website, good advice!