FeatherPad vs webapp-manager

FeatherPad

Lightweight Qt Plain-Text Editor for Linux (by tsujan)

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webapp-manager

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FeatherPad		webapp-manager
	Project
3	Mentions	59
370	Stars	604
-	Growth	5.8%
7.9	Activity	6.5
10 days ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
C++	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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FeatherPad

Posts with mentions or reviews of FeatherPad. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-05.

What Are The Best Linux Apps?
25 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 5 Jan 2022

FeatherPad as a text editor
rust-analyzer changelog #76
3 projects | /r/rust | 10 May 2021

It is... something I consider to be a questionable choice and which caused me to remove and replace it with FeatherPad from LXQt, with all UI elements but the menu bar turned off.
File open/save dialogues: Control-L = location
1 project | /r/QtFramework | 2 May 2021

An example – Qt-based FeatherPad 0.16.0 on KDE Plasma on FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT:

webapp-manager

Posts with mentions or reviews of webapp-manager. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.

Ask HN: Why is ChatGPT using 100% of my CPU?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Dec 2023

I've noticed this too. 100% CPU usage, laptop temperature skyrockets and fans kick on whenever I'm on the ChatGPT website.
I believe I've found a solution. I'm on Linux Mint, I'm using Firefox. If I export chatGPT to a web app using Linux Mint's webapp-manager, the problem goes away. What's strange here is that this should be using same profile and version of Firefox as my actual browser. Maybe it's an extension causing an issue, but I only have ublock origin, tampermonkey, firefox translation which is an official addon, and multi-account container which is also an official addon.
https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager
Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023

Surprised no one mentioned Linux Mint's Webapp Manager:
https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager
Should be in more distros. Allows some basic tweaking of profiles and supports more than just Firefox (unfortunately not qutebrowser, though).
He doesn't care that Flatpak solved this problem 3 years ago or that Discord doesn't manage Arch repos...
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 12 Jul 2023

I can recommend webapp manager: https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager
Bucket: A card game
3 projects | /r/linuxmint | 8 Jun 2023

This program, as it runs in a browser tab, doesn't run exclusively on linux. Linux users, however, can play the game using Web App
Any FOSS Site-specific browser?
4 projects | /r/opensource | 10 May 2023
This individual won't be moving to Wayland anytime soon, I believe...
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 16 Apr 2023
Today I learned about Web Apps
1 project | /r/linuxmint | 27 Mar 2023

You can see the implementation at: https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager/blob/master/usr/lib/webapp-manager/common.py
Is there a way to make PWAs to display their separate icon in the GNOME dock?
1 project | /r/gnome | 18 Mar 2023

This is something that I really struggled with some time ago, but I finally managed to solve. Try out WebApp Manager, it's a fork of ICE, a previous version which also worked. It takes care of everything, even the WM_CLASS attribute needed to associate different windows of each PWA together but separated from the browser window. This completely changed the way I use my PC, nowadays I have more PWAs opened that desktop programs.
Any method to install websites as apps like in chromium based browsers?
1 project | /r/firefox | 28 Feb 2023

Webapps are basically just shortcuts that launch the browser with no navigation bar - so it's possible to create them with something like https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager
[Linux4Noobs] Un guide pour le partage d’écran Discord sur Wayland
2 projects | /r/enfrancais | 27 Feb 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing FeatherPad and webapp-manager you can also consider the following projects:

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs [Moved to: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer]

nativefier - Make any web page a desktop application

st - build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw

FirefoxPWA - A tool to install, manage and use Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Mozilla Firefox [Moved to: https://github.com/filips123/PWAsForFirefox]

rust-analyzer - A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs

warpinator - Share files across the LAN

fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.

WebApps - DEPRECATED ⛔️ Android app to provide sandboxed (private) browsing of webapps

ice - Tool to create Chromium/Chrome/Firefox/Vivaldi SSBs in Peppermint OS.

feh - a fast and light image viewer

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