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nativefier / nativefier

Make any web page a desktop application
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Consider adding toolbar (back/forward/reload, maybe more?) #350

Closed Phe0nix closed 7 years ago

Phe0nix commented 7 years ago

after convert to app there's No back or forward button..how do i add those?

is there any command for these?

ronjouch commented 7 years ago

@Phe0nix thanks for the feedback :)

There's no back/forward/reload/url bar and buttons in Nativefier apps, no. The goal is to package web applications and let the webapps themselves be the way users navigate inside them, with minimal interface around.

Also, note that back/forward are already available from the View menu. Would it work for you?

I'll close that for now, but feel free to add more comments, with enough understanding (please provide use cases, perceived benefits, examples where the lack is particularily painful, etc.) we can reconsider this into a feature request.

jb510 commented 6 years ago

FWIW, I too would love back/forward/reload/home and on page text search. I do not want a URL bar, just 4 icons plus a way to search for text on a page.

Use case: I use Natifiver for several web apps like our project managment tool and it's really helpful to be able to search a long page for key words in a long threaded conversation.

Additionally, when I click into an issue/task it's really nice to back out (I used cmd-[) but my normal method would be a button or right-click and back. Yes, the web app provides a link backward to the "issue list" but it's not the best UI and hard to find/click.

Somewhat related #297

jamesdh commented 3 years ago

This basically renders Nativefier useless in web apps like GitHub, which are heavily dependent on linking between issues/PR's and subsequently using the back/forward buttons (or swiping on MacOS) extensively.