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Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

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Re: Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

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Post by drinchev »

It actually is an electron app

    λ /Applications/Trello.app/Contents ◆ tree -L 2
    .
    ├── Frameworks
    │   ├── Electron\ Framework.framework
    │   ├── Trello\ Helper\ EH.app
    │   ├── Trello\ Helper\ NP.app
    │   └── Trello\ Helper.app
    ├── Info.plist
Tried it. It's a bit laggy and seems not much different than the website itself.

Re: Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

#12

Post by danso »

Willson50 wrote: post #5
stevekinney wrote: post #2

I haven't had a chance to download it yet, but my suspicion says it's probably an Electron application. What do you all feel about this practice of taking long-lived web applications and getting them out of a tab and into a desktop shell with a place on the dock/task bar and the ability to Atl/Control-Tab?

Definitely some sort of electron app. Certain things are broken like trying to use your webcam to take a profile photo because it doesn't know how to ask for browser permissions. I really hope this trend stops soon.

> I really hope this trend stops soon.

In what way? That services stop trying to be desktop applications and live on the web and web browser? Or that Electron itself is not an adequate framework for cross-platform development?

Re: Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

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Post by seanalltogether »

stevekinney wrote: post #2

I haven't had a chance to download it yet, but my suspicion says it's probably an Electron application. What do you all feel about this practice of taking long-lived web applications and getting them out of a tab and into a desktop shell with a place on the dock/task bar and the ability to Atl/Control-Tab?

Notifications are always the killer feature for me on desktop and it's one of the main reasons i don't use gmail/hangouts/google calendar in the browser. Sure you can keep them open all day in a browser window, but i don't want permanent browser windows open all day.

Re: Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

#15

Post by chrisco255 »

Willson50 wrote: post #5
stevekinney wrote: post #2

I haven't had a chance to download it yet, but my suspicion says it's probably an Electron application. What do you all feel about this practice of taking long-lived web applications and getting them out of a tab and into a desktop shell with a place on the dock/task bar and the ability to Atl/Control-Tab?

Definitely some sort of electron app. Certain things are broken like trying to use your webcam to take a profile photo because it doesn't know how to ask for browser permissions. I really hope this trend stops soon.

This trend isn't going anywhere. It's efficient from a human resources perspective. It is very expensive to build and maintain products across native desktop (Mac and Windows), mobile (iOS and Android) and web. That's 5 platforms. Web on its own is hard enough with probably 6 or 7 different browser platforms and various screen sizes to accommodate. Electron is a godsend, sub-native performance or not.

Re: Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

#16

Post by jedberg »

zokier wrote: post #14

I love the irony of having the marketing lines "Experience Trello without distractions" and "Native notifications" follow directly each other in the trailer.

Well to be fair, the Trello notifications don't distract you from using Trello...

Re: Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

#18

Post by zbuttram »

sp332 wrote: post #17

Why is this screenshot rendered so badly? https://blog.trello.com/hs-fs/hubfs/desktop-shortcuts-conden... From the URL it might have been dynamically resized?

Yeah, whatever is doing the resizing isn't doing a great job. You can see the original looks fine if you remove the query string: https://blog.trello.com/hs-fs/hubfs/desktop-shortcuts-conden...

It's also pretty darn big though.

Re: Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

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Post by CD1212 »

drinchev wrote: post #11

It actually is an electron app λ /Applications/Trello.app/Contents ◆ tree -L 2 . ├── Frameworks │ ├── Electron\ Framework.framework │ ├── Trello\ Helper\ EH.app │ ├── Trello\ Helper\ NP.app │ └── Trello\ Helper.app ├── Info.plist Tried it. It's a bit laggy and seems not much different than the website itself.

Oh dear. That's a shame.

I came here to post a comment asking if it was an Electron app. Hopefully Electron's overhead can become lighter in the future making useful applications like this less bloated.

Re: Trello Desktop for Mac and Windows: Get More Done Without Distractions

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Post by noir_lord »

chrisco255 wrote: post #15
Willson50 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely some sort of electron app. Certain things are broken like trying to use your webcam to take a profile photo because it doesn't know how to ask for browser permissions. I really hope this trend stops soon.

This trend isn't going anywhere. It's efficient from a human resources perspective. It is very expensive to build and maintain products across native desktop (Mac and Windows), mobile (iOS and Android) and web. That's 5 platforms. Web on its own is hard enough with probably 6 or 7 different browser platforms and various screen sizes to accommodate. Electron is a godsend, sub-native performance or not.

Agreed, also it's a case of "good enough but will get better", the more people who use electron the more its performance will improve.

I was bearish on it initially but it's starting to prove itself in a way where I'm seriously considering it.

Also as a former desktop developer who moved to the web a lot of what it does looks pretty good tbh.

That and TypeScript has completely changed my opinion of "client side" web development, it's solved so much of the pain it's unbelievable and is good enough I'd consider it for desktop development for me the killer example is vscode - proof that you can write fast applications on the platform.

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