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Specifically it makes it easier to get straight to the chat app.

I suppose I could use Hammerspoon to script hotkeys that jump straight to a Chrome tab with the right title, but that sounds like a lot more work than just binding a key combo to focus "Slack.app" (which is what I currently do).

You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.

Huh, that's incredibly useful. I'll have to keep that in mind!

You can just create a shortcut with a custom icon that opens slack in a new browser window then.

Missing the point. I don't want it in my browser. My browser is used for reference materials and things like that. My chat app is its own separate thing and easily switched to.

You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.

This is all I want from an electron app, and is basically the main reason I really want PWAs to take off.

You can do this already for slack in chromium browsers. Click Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut. The app will run in an app window and NOT a tabbed browser window, just like a PWA, with it's own dock icon and cmd-tab icon.