<div dir="ltr"><div>I don't think you understood what I was saying. The package you linked to *is* a local installation. There is no "web" involved in using that package. It is conceptually identical to VSCode, just with python httpd and epiphany instead of node and electron. </div>Maybe Type=Webapp would make sense for shortcuts that launch a browser pointed at a website, but that's not what this is. </div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:47 PM Genghis Khan <<a href="mailto:genghiskhan@gmx.ca">genghiskhan@gmx.ca</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Sparr, Sure, ConverseJS not a simple local installation, and I don't think it intends to be installed locally, at least not on end-user type of systems. A WebApp is a WebApp, regardless of complexity. That being said, I see the result. Eventually, I think, once Type=Webapp is implemented and Linux web browsers adopt WebApp-Mode, if needed, I guess that ConverseJS, and other webapps alike, will be widely available in local installations. Cheers, --GK On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:13:46 -0700 Sparr <<a href="mailto:sparr0@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparr0@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > While ConverseJS is available as a web app, that does not seem > relevant to the package you've linked. That package does not use the > actual hosted-on-the-internet web app. It deploys a local instance of > the conversejs codebase and connects to that with a local browser. In > effect, this is no different from apps like Visual Studio Code, > Slack, Discord, etc which package a browser (electron) and a backend > (usually javascript) that runs locally. > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:03 PM Genghis Khan <<a href="mailto:genghiskhan@gmx.ca" target="_blank">genghiskhan@gmx.ca</a>> > wrote: > > > Friends, good evening > > > > Allow me to begin and state, that no matter how big an operation > > is and no matter which industry (i.e. Computing, Entertainment > > etc.), it appears that we ALWAYS HAVE TO make Trials & Errors in > > order for us to observe and see what we want for our audience, even > > in times we don't trust our own judgement. > > > > I have stumbled upon an ArchLinux package[0] made specifically > > for a WebApp called Converse.js[1] by XMPP community members. > > > > That package deploys Epiphany (A GNOME web browser) and npm (A > > package manager for javascript). > > > > Regardless of what anyone thinks of the planning of that > > WebApp-specific-package, I think it might be a good call for > > considering Type=Webappn in .desktop launchers. > > > > [0]: <a href="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conversejs-epiphany-git/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/conversejs-epiphany-git/</a> > > [1]: <a href="https://conversejs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://conversejs.org/</a> > > > > Kind regards, > > --GK > > > > </blockquote></div>