Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: A Pomodoro app for your menubar/tray

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 37 posts

Re: Show HN: A Pomodoro app for your menubar/tray

#6

Post by throwaway2016a »

sdflkd wrote: post #3
Ezhik wrote: post #2

Electron... It's always so upsetting to see a tray widget require hundreds of megabytes of RAM to run.

What is a less resource intensive but similarly easy to use tool that would let you make desktop apps?

Qt is actually pretty easy to work with.

Really, though, I would prefer to use Electron. It would be great if they could find a way for multiple electron apps to share a runtime so it would save both memory and reduce the download size.

Re: Show HN: A Pomodoro app for your menubar/tray

#8

Post by mattnewton »

throwaway2016a wrote: post #6
sdflkd wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is a less resource intensive but similarly easy to use tool that would let you make desktop apps?

Qt is actually pretty easy to work with. Really, though, I would prefer to use Electron. It would be great if they could find a way for multiple electron apps to share a runtime so it would save both memory and reduce the download size.

..like browser tabs? Obviously not the exact ui desired here, but an extension/bookmark would work, no?

Re: Show HN: A Pomodoro app for your menubar/tray

#10

Post by sdegutis »

One of my favorite skills & challenges is do things as efficiency as possible, and using Electron for an app like this just strikes me as super-duper wasteful, especially for an app that'll be running all the time. That said, it's probably not going to make that huge of a dent in daily battery life.
Post reply on HN