Orb is a free and open source web desktop
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Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop
#2Somewhat more eleaborate than 2 sentences-long README would be welcome. Including a screenshot[1] there would be nice for a GUI project.
BTW, I've been out of touch with PHP for years. How are its performance and security these days?
[1] https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/orb/-/blob/master/screenshot.jp...
Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop
#3Somewhat more eleaborate than 2 sentences-long README would be welcome. Including a screenshot[1] there would be nice for a GUI project. BTW, I've been out of touch with PHP for years. How are its performance and security these days? [1] https://gitlab.com/hsleisink/orb/-/blob/master/screenshot.jp...
Performance is adequate, security is up to the dev.
Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop
#4General question: Is there an actual use for this kinds of projects, beyond showing what can be done? I have seen many different "web desktop" projects and while most of them were impressive in their own (technical) ways, I could never see the an actual use case for them.
Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop
#5Why don't we see more of these, given that canvas and webgl and fullscreen are a thing now?
Shouldn't this have put Citrix et al out of business?
Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop
#6General question: Is there an actual use for this kinds of projects, beyond showing what can be done? I have seen many different "web desktop" projects and while most of them were impressive in their own (technical) ways, I could never see the an actual use case for them.
My Synology NAS uses something like this for its navigation and even if it's initially strange, you instantly miss it when you access it from your phone, when the UI turns into this nested list which is not intuitive at all
Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop
#7General question: Is there an actual use for this kinds of projects, beyond showing what can be done? I have seen many different "web desktop" projects and while most of them were impressive in their own (technical) ways, I could never see the an actual use case for them.
My Synology NAS uses something like this for its navigation and even if it's initially strange, you instantly miss it when you access it from your phone, when the UI turns into this nested list which is not intuitive at all
I personally hate this from Synology. While their apps are meaningful structured and look good, it is just a natural mismatch to put sub windows into a parent window. Anyone remembering multi sub window apps in the Microsoft office suite in the 90s/00s. Was also horrible without a browser/html involved.
This is definitely a taste thing
Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop
#8Why don't we see more of these, given that canvas and webgl and fullscreen are a thing now? Shouldn't this have put Citrix et al out of business?
Best comment here. Never thought about if from that angle, considering my hate for window in window.
Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop
#9Is it really being reset every few minutes? Because those open text editors seem quite... "interesting".
Re: Orb is a free and open source web desktop
#10Why don't we see more of these, given that canvas and webgl and fullscreen are a thing now? Shouldn't this have put Citrix et al out of business?
Because this is not actually useful in any way whatsoever. The point of citrix is accessing legacy desktop applications running on some server via a light desktop client. The whole point of that is not having to replace those legacy applications and not having to install them locally. The business is allowing companies that have ancient stuff being able to continue to use that. It's worth a lot of billions because lots of companies just have decades worth of software that their businesses depend on.
You are right that citrix should be able to dumb down what they have to basically a glorified web application that accesses their servers. Which apparently is a thing for obvious reasons (as in they thought of that too, many years ago).