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Deprecating doesn't necessarily mean you can't keep using what's already there. Even if it's removed from the store you should still be able to run it locally.
Not if Chromium removes support for packaged apps: https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
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Fedora doesn't support APT right? It needs to be packaged separately? So it's a whole bunch of work for a small user base.
It's a different user base. Give us a github repo and we can build it ourself. Let me see if I can find one. Edit: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop
He only wants users to get Signal builds from himself, and no one else.
Another 205MB Electron App to the collection, at least it's 50MB smaller than Wire.
Signal support is coming later this year. Right now it supports Slack, Skype, Facebook, and Gmail.
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Signal Desktop works without having your phone turned on. It acts like a full, independent client after linking it to your smartphone app (unlike WhatsApp, which does require your phone to be turned on).
wow, sorry. my bad. So I guess there is a way to use signal without having a phone nowadays! That's a great news! I will try right now.
I cannot run another Electron app on my computer, I simply do not have the RAM left. Signal as a web-app would allow me to put it inside of Franz or Rambox, where all my other chat services live.
Right now Signal is the only chat service that I cannot run in Rambox or a browser.
All the other major chat services provide a web-app that can run in a browser:
- messenger - whatsapp - wechat - hangouts - skype - zulip
These apps all have web versions for good reason, a website is the most versatile, portable way to share an application with users who's devices you cant support individually. If a user's chrome extension gets hacked a steals their messages that's their fault, it should be the choice of the user whether they run the app in an insecure environment. After all, you're relying on them to not have keyloggers or rootkits on their computers that run the desktop app.
I don't see any reasoning for Signal to not follow WhatsApp's model and release a web-app that links to your phone.
Another 205MB Electron App to the collection, at least it's 50MB smaller than Wire.
eul is a light (4 MB) native desktop client for all popular messengers: https://eul.im Signal support is coming later this year. Right now it supports Slack, Skype, Facebook, and Gmail.
Another 205MB Electron App to the collection, at least it's 50MB smaller than Wire.
eul is a light (4 MB) native desktop client for all popular messengers: https://eul.im Signal support is coming later this year. Right now it supports Slack, Skype, Facebook, and Gmail.
Franz https://github.com/meetfranz/franz
These are similar apps. Though they do use Electron, they let you share one Electron instance for all your chat services.
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That might be your definition of it, but it's in general wishful thinking. For me desktop apps are apps that run on my desktop computer, requiring an installation process instead of being loaded via an URL and not subject to the browser's sandbox. I've had access or owned desktop computers in various shapes and sizes ever since 1993 and let me tell you, since then until now the notion that desktop apps have a unified…
> the notion that desktop apps have a unified look and feel is a really recent phenomenon, that happened due to Apple, OS X and the iPhone. The Apple HIG dates as far back as the Macintosh. That’s 1987[0]. Visual and behavioral consistency have always been a staple of good design for those who cared. [0]: https://guidebookgallery.org/books/applehumaninterfaceguidel...
there is a certain section of third party app-developers that argue that app ux should absolutely emulate the host operating system. when this isn't sufficiently expressive, new interface elements should be designed such that they blend in naturally (ie, resemble what likely would have been the os-developer's choices).
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wow, sorry. my bad. So I guess there is a way to use signal without having a phone nowadays! That's a great news! I will try right now.
You still need a phone with a registered Signal on iOS or Android initially to activate the desktop version (sorry if that wasn't clear), but you can turn your phone off after. Edit: It actually has the option to register without smartphone, but it's only enabled in the debug versions.
So it is not _really_ standalone. You still need a phone. This is still a geeky version of WhatsApp.
In fact, why would I want to use this instead of WhatsApp if they're basically using the same encryption features and I have to trust the same people (who assert that)?
(I don't use WhatsApp, I think it is the worst mankind nightmare.)