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I find it amusing that the opening paragraph describes it as a "framework for building cross-platform desktop apps" and then shortly below that in the "Supported Platforms" section it lists one Mac OS and one very specific version of Windows. No Linux at all. Even native Windows apps are more cross-platform than that! (I have written a few which will work on any version of Windows starting at Win95...)

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People are always complaining about Electron for shipping along with every single application, but actually, modern Linux desktop is not that far away from this just by itself. On a relatively standard desktop installation I currently have

- webkit-gtk2 - webkit-gtk3 - qtwebkit - qtwebengine

Additionally I have two Geckos for Firefox and Thunderbird. All of them use skia, which then also gets compiled 6 times in total.

Using Gentoo, I'm a bit sensitive to this sort of thing ;)

I shared your concern before I started the project, and talked about this in the readme's FAQ[0].

[0] https://deskgap.com/#faq

The majority of Linux users use a GTK desktop, IMO WebkitGTK would be preferable.

No - that's built on webkit, which is apparently becoming the next IE.

I use a GTK desktop on my Linux desktop computers (Ubuntu/Debian and Kali). However, I prefer Qt applications. They look very well on my GTK desktop.

I'm glad to see that you are considering the Qt component. Qt looks good on Gnome, KDE, and other desktops. It is also relatively lightweight for what it offers.

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