Desktop App
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@vladimir-d Give me a PM, and I can share the repo privately for now
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Wow, that's pretty neat!
I had seen someone running desktop apps as docker containers with web frontends. Found this with handbrake, for example, and it works pretty well: https://github.com/jlesage/docker-handbrake
Not sure if it's the same approach or if it can help you in any way, just thought I'd mention. I love this idea!
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@murgero Can you have a think about this; making a
lite
' and aloaded
version?- Lite: I'm thinking only needs a Browser. Perhaps Waterfox.net is leaner for this too.
- Loaded: Would have all the extra/common Apps pre-installed: Waterfox, Thunderbird, Vivaldi, Libre Office, Rocket Chat, Bitwarden, PDF Arranger, maybe some others.
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@marcusquinn Neat idea. However, Flatpak will allow users to install those apps as they need them. I think the only version I'll be making, for now, is a lite version. Right now it has a file manager, terminal, RDP Client (for thin client like purpose), and a text editor.
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@murgero My world generally involves explaining the same thing to about 100 people, who then all have to do the same reliably.
Hence, I tend towards just do it for them to save the explanations, and thereon inevitable questions that there's not always time to answer or document.
@vladimir-d and I will help work on this though, and everything we do is for sharing back.
Thanks for the innovation with this, it could become very useful!
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Thinking out loud on if we'd be able to get ZorinOS 16 Pro Lite (based on Xfce Desktop) running with this methodology?
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@marcusquinn It should be possible - but the idea here is to keep the UI as lite as possible, and Zorin, even the lite model, takes up a minimum of 2GB RAM. My current setup at the moment only needs 256 to 512
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Also check out what Kasm is doing in this space - pretty slick!
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@marcusquinn You're always welcome to customize to your needs - this was made for me to use as more of a lack-of-workspace situation so I can RDP into a windows machine or simply open my email in a better webclient than my mobile client.
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@doodlemania2 Looks amazing - links for reference:
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@marcusquinn If only I could get sound working properly lol
Still working out a bunch of kinks like allowing users to change the resolution, sound, flatpak (for the advanced users) and so on
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@marcusquinn Switching the desktop to xfce4 which is a little bit heavier than fluxbox BUT will be 1000x more user friendly.
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@murgero Nice, agreed. ZorinOS Lite is based on that (XFCE 4.16) too if you wanna try?
That's what we use for all recommissioned laptops and desktops now: https://blog.zorin.com/2021/12/08/zorin-os-16-lite-is-here/
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@marcusquinn : Kasm looks amazing but very interested in how @murgero's package will be
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@marcusquinn Gonna forego Flatpak since it is just broken with the read-only file system.
Instead, users can use appimage (ubuntu native!) to get their apps beyond the default installed ones. No root or whatever needed for those. I am going to test this later and see if it works as expected and if so, then the package will be in a state where anyone can test and get back to me with suggestions or questions.Nevermind - appimage requires fuse, which we can't run in docker as-is with cloudron.
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@timconsidine I actually think that wth a bit more work and collective minds, everything that Kasm offers could be reproduced here for Cloudron. I'm very excited for this concept!
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@marcusquinn Sadly Kasm wont work on cloudron as-is. Cloudron restricts access to the containers file-system to read-only mode. Kasm will require that to be removed + will also need docker running in privileged mode to get stuff like sound, app installs, etc working.