Add PWA support about bluefin

[xynydev]

People who believe that are not the target audience for this image.

I know I'm not, but I'll just leave this random article here
https://thomask.sdf.org/blog/2023/03/18/the-dark-defaults-of-microsoft-edge.html

[aadilayub]

TBH I don't use them that much. A bunch of the PWAs I need aren't in there, and they all run in Epiphany, which doesn't have the best performance. Still nice to have them discoverable in the store, though. I just wish the selection was larger.

[castrojo]

They also look great! Edge can just generate these, I just need to generalize the files themselves a bit and all yafti needs to do is copy them to ~/.local/share/applications and the icons to ~/.local/share/icons.

[xynydev]

Shouldn't this be in ublue-os/config? Also, atleast having an optional override for something other than Edge would be cool, since there are very likely Linux users who do not want the microsoft-reskinned chrome.

[castrojo]

People who believe that are not the target audience for this image.

[castrojo]

https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager has logic for generating PWAs for flatpakked browsers, we should template that out on generation depending on the one the user is using.

[castrojo]

Ok this should be the way forward, EndlessOS has nailed the UX, this is what we should investigate: https://mastodon.blaede.family/@cassidy/110159920076176643

[castrojo]

Grabbed this from my endless install:

endless:~$ gsettings get org.gnome.software external-appstream-urls
['https://appstream.endlessos.org/app-info/eos-extra.xml.gz']

[castrojo]

A note from Philip Withnal - "gnome-software needs to be compiled with -Dwebapps=true and -Dexternal_appstream=true. The former is the default (but distros may have disabled it). The latter is not the default."

I'd love to spike on this, I'll see if we can run a build of gnome-software with this turned on.

[castrojo]

More background info: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1553

[KyleGospo]

Copr for gnome-software with PWAs enabled is available here:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ublue-os/gnome-software/

[castrojo]

Alright this is in the ublue-os/beyond image, I'm playing with it there and then I'll bring it over to here once we familiarize ourselves with it.

[orowith2os]

--filesystem=~/.local/share/applications

There's a better solution here, although I don't think everyone implements it: the DynamicLauncher portal.

GNOME has this implemented since March of last year: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/merge_requests/27

KDE: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/commit/d5f958e149705e27bbba9f3bbec659ff5bed1d80

Is there an upstream bug report for DynamicLauncher support in Chromium and Firefox yet? Epiphany (GNOME Web) already supports this portal.

[aadilayub]

Doesn't bluefin already have PWA support? I've been able to install PWAs from the store for a couple months.

[castrojo]

How's it working out for you? They're still a bit jank for me. Most of the apps people use (like Office 365) still kinda don't work right, I'm debating just setting these up by hand and then having a section in yafti that just pulls in edge when you select them.