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Thanks for the typo pointers! It uses DOM elements. This makes it really easy to develop themes with CSS. I also did some experiments with alternatives to Electron, but found that the advantages of Electron clearly outweigh the disadvantages in this case. Here is some background information: https://github.com/orgs/kando-menu/discussions/58

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Thank you for addressing the Electron discussion thoroughly on Github. I am always very disappointed to see an application I am interested in using Electron. It is often enough of an issue for me to immediately write it off as something I will never use. I hope to see more Tauri instead, but you also addressed some minor issues about that option.

I'll have to play around with this application.

Yeah, Tauri would be great. But I think it will take quite some time until the fundamental rendering performance issues [1] under Linux can be fixed. There seem to be rough plans to bundle CEF on Linux [2], but AFAICS this seems to be only a discussion at this point.

[1] https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3988 [2] https://github.com/tauri-apps/wry/issues/1064

If they are bundling cef then it is rebuilding electron

If I got it correctly, they would only do this on Linux to face the performance issues of the native webview. Also, there are ideas of a shared installation: https://github.com/chromiumembedded/cef/issues/3836

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