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ruippeixotog / docker-google-musicmanager

Dockerfile for Google Music Manager
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Docker gui baseimage #6

Closed aptalca closed 8 years ago

aptalca commented 8 years ago

Hi,

Great job on this container. I just wanted to let you know of a baseimage that allows running X apps in a web browser (runs a guacamole server on the backend).

The original dev created the baseimage for others to build containers off of and I think this app would be a great fit.

Here's the baseimage: https://hub.docker.com/r/hurricane/dockergui/

I created a few containers using it and it works great.

Here are a few I did: https://hub.docker.com/r/aptalca/docker-jdownloader2/ https://hub.docker.com/r/aptalca/docker-rdp-calibre/ https://hub.docker.com/r/aptalca/docker-digikam/

ruippeixotog commented 8 years ago

Hi @aptalca, thanks for your suggestion! I didn't know that image, it seems very useful for running X-only full-fledged applications.

However, in this case it seems rather overkill. The application needs an X server only because of a bad design on its part: this is supposed to be a daemon in most aspects. If you authenticate with username and password via CLI you don't ever need to connect to the GUI through VNC; if you use two-factor auth you need a VNC client, but only for showing a single small square screen to input your credentials. Finally, I am not particularly fond of the phusion/baseimage used by hurricane/dockergui.

I prefer the image to be the way it is now as it runs with the minimum possible side services possible, as a daemon should be. But I thank you again for the suggestion; despite not using it in this one, I'll surely have that image in account for building future Docker images with X requirements :)

aptalca commented 8 years ago

That makes sense. Thanks for the consideration and the comments.