please provide app for Linux

[shelmz]

building a Linux version should be quite manageable with Electron.

[AlekseiPinchuk]

I need it too

[alexey-koran]

Yeah, it would be great

[odeyal0]

Yeah, actual problem...

[fmartins-andre]

+1

[ronaldoflima]

+1

[kivo360]

If this is electron the big question is what are the barriers?

[Lukewh]

Today, I've created a snap: https://snapcraft.io/gathertown It might be useful for some people, others will be angry because it's a snap :)! It's a simple Electron wrapper around https://app.gather.town - I hope it's helpful for some.

[lukasz-bielinski]

thank you @Lukewh

[augustresende]

+1

[001101]

to open a custom link, get into console from top left icon and enter: this.document.location = "https://app.gather.town/app/YOURINVITEID/"

[MLengl]

@Lukewh thanks for adding the snap - thats usefull but in general i think we're all waiting for a native port. Snaps should not be used, they are unstable - specially on webapps.

All negativ parts, performance issues, bugs, .. are related to isolations but users could blame gather for it. Hopefully thats an betetr argument for them

[Lukewh]

@Lukewh thanks for adding the snap - thats usefull but in general i think we're all waiting for a native port. Snaps should not be used, they are unstable - specially on webapps.

All negativ parts, performance issues, bugs, .. are related to isolations but users could blame gather for it. Hopefully thats an betetr argument for them

Interesting perspective. Do you have sources and evidence for your claims about snaps?

I agree, however, that ultimately I want an official Gather app for Linux, maintaining an electron wrapper is not fun, but that's to do with electron, not snaps.

Specifically the issues with the snap version I maintain are due to the assumptions the gather website makes and technical implementations/overrides I've had to add in the electron wrapper are far from engineering excellence 😅.

[maistrotoad]

tried the snap, got the message it is no longer supported, to use the desktop app instead, which does not exist off course :clown_face:

[PuKoren]

the web version currently misses notifications for browsers, so when using Linux as there is no desktop app, its currently impossible to have notifications. an official native app would be great, a lot of engineers are using Linux

[danacr]

it would also be great to have the mac like icon to see if someone's at your desk

[augustresende]

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[cycloarcane]

A Linux desktop app would be really useful.

[eje211]

This is a multiplatform Electron app already. It looks like there is some deliberate will not exclude Linux. I wonder why so many companies do that. I know someone who makes a game on Unity. He builds for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. But no matter how much I ask, he will not build for Linux. And he supports Steam Deck through Proton. But he won't to a native Linux port.

[Semanual]

As always, 2 years old issue about linux, the devs did nothing. It's always the community who has to find hacky workarounds to run anything. Why is that always the case? Shouldn't take more than a few hours to do a native port, especially for electron. So why is it always ignored?

[fdelbrayelle]

:+1: A native Linux app would be really appreciated...

[augustresende]

They don't care about us.

[machine-without-the-e]

+1 to A native Linux app would be really appreciated!

[Semanual]

As we all know that a linux version will never exist, as a workaround you can use https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager to wrap it around an app.

[Christian-Klempau]

+1 to the native app

[ecobost]

+1

[dramamask]

+1

[maistrotoad]

would be really nice if we can get anyone from the Gather team to communicate anything in this thread here. No would also be an answer, or something like maybe next year, anything would be really appreciated.

[hieupng]

Having to wear headphone 24/24 to just not miss my colleague pinging is so annoying.

[MLengl]

Since there is a stable Mac-port - when is a native linux version there as well? Is it at least planned?

[devdiogenes]

+1

[vitorAzevedo09]

+1

[iskyd]

+1

[vallops99]

+1

[maistrotoad]

My solution for now is to install it as a progressive web app, that at least gives me notifications

[daddinuz]

+1

[hieupng]

@maistrotoad >progressive web app

Could you provide detail on how to do it? It's still doesn't give me notifications and the option to install not appear at all, only the option to create short cut appear, that on brave at least.

[devdiogenes]

Another way to improve this for us who uses linux, is just provide notifications in the web version. I don't know if there is someway for enable it, but I never got to enable, the only way I know someone messaged me is by the sound. But of course, if gather team make an app for linux, it will be much better haha

Obs: I used chrome for "install" gather looking like an app

[maistrotoad]

@maistrotoad >progressive web app

Could you provide detail on how to do it? It's still doesn't give me notifications and the option to install not appear at all, only the option to create short cut appear, that on brave at least.

@hieupng I was hoping I did not have to, because I am not very proud of my current setup. So my OS is Ubuntu. Very recently I installed Edge browser because M$ abandoned building a native app for Ubuntu. I installed Teams as a PWA through the Edge browser. Then I tried it for Gather as well, which works pretty good.

My biggest annoyance so far is that links then get opened in Edge as well, Brave is also my main browser, so that is well, annoying.

[update]: don't get actual notifications, I saw this permission was not "asked", so yeah, would be nice if they can add it for the web version

I guess the sounds are enough for me usually

[devdiogenes]

The two problems I see in installing as app using a browser is that notifications doesn't shows, and if you use a browser differente than the browser you installed gather (in my case, I use Firefox, but it doesn't allows install as app, then I installed using chrome), all the links you try to open will open in the browser that you use for gather. That's a fell boring

[maistrotoad]

The two problems I see in installing as app using a browser is that notifications doesn't shows, and if you use a browser differente than the browser you installed gather (in my case, I use Firefox, but it doesn't allows install as app, then I installed using chrome), all the links you try to open will open in the browser that you use for gather. That's a fell boring

the notifications is something Gather could just add to the web-app. But that links thing is something browser vendors should fix, but that is never going to happen right?

[devdiogenes]

The two problems I see in installing as app using a browser is that notifications doesn't shows, and if you use a browser differente than the browser you installed gather (in my case, I use Firefox, but it doesn't allows install as app, then I installed using chrome), all the links you try to open will open in the browser that you use for gather. That's a fell boring

the notifications is something Gather could just add to the web-app. But that links thing is something browser vendors should fix, but that is never going to happen right?

Often happen to me, in anyway, a desktop app would be a good thing, cause if don't, it would be useless in Windows haha. I hope someday it happen

[rodrigomaia]

+1

[guidoaguiar]

+1

[amaujipe]

+1 to the native app

[V-Mann-Nick]

We're trying it out as a team and although the app is great I will advocate to my team to not use it going forward, due to the lack of notification support for Linux. No notifications make it rather unusable.

[guidoaguiar]

We're trying it out as a team and although the app is great I will advocate to my team to not use it going forward, due to the lack of notification support for Linux. No notifications make it rather unusable.

Exactly, we are migrating to Discord