Re: WebApps functionality



Hello,

On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:28:12 -0400, "Jeremiah C. Foster via epiphany-list" <epiphany-list gnome org> wrote:
On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 17:35 +0200, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
El mié, 15-04-2020 a las 11:25 -0400, Jeremiah C. Foster via
epiphany-
list escribió:
On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 15:46 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
Well we removed Epiphany web app support from GNOME Software,
because 
it has never worked well.

But Epiphany itself still supports creating web apps, except
when 
running under flatpak.

Flatpak is the preferred way to install Epiphany, no? At this URL
it
says "The recommended way to install Epiphany is via Flatpak." 
https://github.com/GNOME/epiphany

Definitely not the recommended way if you want web apps. Use the
package from your distro or build it yourself from sources.

Using the distro package is smart, but it pushes users back to the
command line because GNOME Software doesn't have support for Epiphany
web apps.

Not really. You can open Epiphany, open the menu, and choose the
“Open Application Manager” option there. That will open a page with
a list of web applications and buttons to delete them—no command line
involved. To create a web application, use “Install Site as Web
Application…“ from the menu.

[…] This means there are no icons viewable via GNOME Software,
the app doesn't show up at all and you cannot manage it. It makes
Epiphany web apps limited to something that is created on one user's
machine and not really useful as something you distribute. 

Which, coincidentally, has always been the intention: allowing users to
create their own web applications ;-)

Cheers,
—Adrián

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