clipper-lite VS teams-for-linux

Compare the 32-bit Windows releases of Temps (42.6mb), made with Electron:

https://github.com/jackd248/temps/releases/tag/v0.7.0

... to the Temps -"lite" remake (4.49mb) using the Sciter engine:

https://github.com/GirkovArpa/temps-lite/releases/tag/v1.1.3

Temps-lite (and of course it's predecessor, Temps) is a desktop weather application for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Provided a free openweathermap.org API key, it displays live weather information for any location in a very attractive, sleek interface. It also shows the forecast for the next 4 days.

To duplicate the very cool rain, snow, and thunder effects, I basically just copied and pasted the original source code. For everything else I redid it in my own way, which probably did not result in very professional-looking code but hey! It works =) Minus some tiny bugs, which I've had help with from someone who's more familiar with Sciter programming.

The original Temps was built/packaged using Electron Builder and Electron Packager (I'm not sure of the difference, to be honest).

The equivalent for Sciter is Quark (quark.sciter.com), and that is what I used to package the HTML, CSS & TIScript files into a single convenient executable which is not only 10x smaller than the Electron version but also starts up way faster (virtually instantly), and has a relatively extremely light memory footprint.

All this without the slightest observable decrease in performance or speed.

One new thing I learned about Sciter while making this project is that it natively supports persisting its equivalent of local storage to a database file, similar to MongoDB.

If you think this is interesting then feel free to check out Clipper-lite, which is the same idea. An Electron app remade using Sciter:

https://github.com/GirkovArpa/clipper-lite

I've never used this but apparently this wrapper is useful for linux people: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

Have you tried an unofficial electron client?

I use https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux . It's "just" a wrapper around the PWA but a very decent one at that.

Unofficial and not Microsoft supported, but might be an alternative to Microsoft's official PWA. How do the two compare in your experience with them?

You can try the unofficial client Teams for Linux. It's available as a Flatpak and I didn't have any issues sharing my screen with it. https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

This client works well for me: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

There is also: https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

That always frustrated me, even more-so considering how that volunteer-built package I mentioned (https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux - an Electron build of the web app, nothing flashy but does the job just fine) does support screen sharing. I haven’t checked whether it supports backgrounds as I only use voice when on calls, but I’m guessing it does if the browser variant does.