Websites that look like desktop GUIs • Hacker News Board

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by winrid » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 6:49 AM UTC

sigjuice wrote: post #98

Desktop GUIs that look like websites :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)#...

GitHub Desktop is actually pretty awesome.

What I don't get is why MongoDB Compass is so slow. It's almost like they have artificial timeouts everywhere.

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by jl6 » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 6:59 AM UTC

Does anybody remember the old desktop.com, circa 1999? It felt like it had a lot of promise, but thinking about it now I can’t recall why.

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by doubleunplussed » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 7:51 AM UTC

winrid wrote: post #121

sigjuice wrote: post #98

Desktop GUIs that look like websites :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)#...

GitHub Desktop is actually pretty awesome. What I don't get is why MongoDB Compass is so slow. It's almost like they have artificial timeouts everywhere.

How is it awesome? Last time I checked you couldn't even check out or make a branch based on a previous commit.

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by winrid » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 8:06 AM UTC

doubleunplussed wrote: post #123

winrid wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub Desktop is actually pretty awesome. What I don't get is why MongoDB Compass is so slow. It's almost like they have artificial timeouts everywhere.

How is it awesome? Last time I checked you couldn't even check out or make a branch based on a previous commit.

You can create a branch from the current head which isn't exactly what you said but fits my use case.

But, it just works really well for simple work flows - I like it on Windows for my projects. Has keyboard bindings, is fast, and does what it's trying to do well.

If you want to do more advanced stuff maybe Git Kraken, or just the CLI.

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by borisandcrispin » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 8:09 AM UTC

This list is amazing! I designed http://therestartpage.com, thank you for including it as well!

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by syx » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 8:11 AM UTC

borisandcrispin wrote: post #125

This list is amazing! I designed http://therestartpage.com , thank you for including it as well!

thanks for making it, I was amazed the first time I played with each one of it!

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by borisandcrispin » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 8:11 AM UTC

nicoburns wrote: post #16

http://www.therestartpage.com/ full screened would make a good prank. The Windows XP startup sound invoked a surprisingly strong reaction from me.

Did this many times. :)

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by doubleunplussed » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 8:11 AM UTC

winrid wrote: post #124

doubleunplussed wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is it awesome? Last time I checked you couldn't even check out or make a branch based on a previous commit.

You can create a branch from the current head which isn't exactly what you said but fits my use case. But, it just works really well for simple work flows - I like it on Windows for my projects. Has keyboard bindings, is fast, and does what it's trying to do well. If you want to do more advanced stuff maybe Git Kraken, or just the CLI.

I use Sublime Merge, it's fairly fully featured.

Seems like GitHub desktop is mostly aimed at people who want to use git like it's Dropbox.

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by andycowley » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 8:15 AM UTC

captbaritone wrote: post #71

JoshGlazebrook wrote: post #54

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Man I had so many custom skins for Winamp. It really was a different time back then.

I (author of Webamp) worked with the internet archive to archive ~50k Winamp skins. The collection even features Webamp integration is you can try them out in the browser. https://archive.org/details/winampskins

Also follow your @winampskins twitter bot for daily nostalgia :)

Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs

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Post by mihaaly » Sun, Jul 05, 2020, 8:23 AM UTC

sigjuice wrote: post #98

Desktop GUIs that look like websites :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)#...

Its funny seeing some of my loathed desktop UIs are on the list - not knowing the rest enough. To me this put websites everywhere thing feels like wearing Halloween costumes everywhere. I mean everywhere, from office through jogging to funeral. Also to bed.