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

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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?

Chrome apps? Maybe not, since I'm not sure they're still alive, but I like(d) them.

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

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

I'm also going to have to mention this. I have zero interest in such a simple tray app that uses nodejs+Electron. It's like the worst of both worlds.

All of this could be done with standard C++ MFC and use literally no ram.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not exactly. At least not until the browser has APIs to interact with more parts of the operating systems.

The only times I've considered writing an Electron app vs a web app (which is my day job) is when it would have benefitted from an offline-first and/or needed system resources like tray icons, interacting with other desktop apps, reading system-level stats, executing native code, etc.

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

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

I suppose someone could make a system tray framework in Electron where each widget is a plugin. But yea, even 10 system tray widgets taking hundreds of megs of RAM seems a bit overkill.

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

#16
I cannot get behind the idea that I need 173 mb in libraries and module for what is essentially a simplistic timer, but it looks nice and works on linux (at least on my machien and from the screenshot it looks like it works on windows aswell), so I have mixed feelings about this app.

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

#17
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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?

For real. I made http://plusaroo.com/ recently. Mine seems to use ~ 30mb.

As much as it seemed like overkill to use Electron for it, it just made the most sense for me. Hopefully those faults with electron can be addressed.

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

#20
About 7yrs ago I published a basic pomodoro app to app store . I received intellectual property infringement notice from 'FC Garage GmbH' to take my app down, which I did. The email on that notice was legal@pomodorotechnique.com, so I assume it has something to with the guy who created it.
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