Google needs to release desktop apps in Flutter (Youtube Music, Chat, Meet etc..). a Webapp is fine for occasional use, but Google Chat can't compete with Slack without a real app.
Calling it an "app" is somewhat laughable, since it's just their website packaged up in a standalone web browser, plus a minimal amount of platform-specific glue.
Maybe the Linux version of electron is neutered in some way? I read article you linked and I don't know what bouncing the dock means, maybe that's an important native feature for mac users?
The slack "app" is just their web site and a web browser zipped together in such a way that it doesn't actually quit when you tell it to quit. Why anyone wants that I cannot begin to imagine.
When you Command-Q Slack, it should close completely (which afaik it does).
To quit it, choose that from it's menu or use the cmnd-q shortcut IIRC.
And there's an option to turn that behaviour off, if you don't like it.
But I would prefer if it wasn't all Electron because it really does feel like the resource overhead is unnecessary. But if it wasn't done with this tech, we probably wouldn't have a Linux client at all, and maybe not a Mac one either, and personally I prefer it to feel like an application instead of having to run it inside a browser.
Kind of hoping Flutter helps advance the situation of cross-platform desktop/web things in a positive way.
You mean hiding the browser chrome? Becuase I've been looking for a decent way to do this for years. Do you use a profile for every app? My rationale against this is that I'd like to share the plugins and settings.