electron
Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies (by discord)
ashpd
A Rust wrapper around XDG portals DBus interfaces (by bilelmoussaoui)
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
electron
Posts with mentions or reviews of electron.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-14.
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Discord is going to shit
Still trash support on Linux too. We still cannot stream without frame rate issues and cannot stream audio with our video without piping through our mics. (the community fixed this for you: link)
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Another new feature, another button placed on the wrong place so we accidentally click them all the time...
SteamDeck and Linux users cannot stream properly (constant frame rate issues and absolutely no audio streaming). Its been FIXED by the community for years now (https://github.com/discord/electron/pull/22) but they just don't want to do it I guess?? If you are going to support the platform, SUPPORT THE PLATFORM. I'm not going to give you money for a product that doesn't work.
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Discord's framework is dangerously old and no longer receives security patches
There is this https://github.com/discord/electron/tree/17-x-y from over half a year ago
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Krisp is coming to Discord on Linux!
But my golly gosh goodness me would I throw them a party in their honor if they would just update their 2 year out of date builtin shipped electron version that prevents all the progress we've made in the past few years from being at all relevant to their client.
- RCE Vulnerability found in Electron, affects Discord, Teams, and more
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Zoom can now (as of version 5.11.0) share screen on Wayland
You can see Discord's version of Electron on GitHub: This branch is 14 commits ahead, 2140 commits behind electron:main
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A Letter to Discord for not Supporting the Linux Desktop
The article from your quick google share says that you should use getUserMedia to capture the screen using Electron. Not only does Discord's client not use this, they even go as far as to disable it from their electron fork https://github.com/discord/electron/commit/e763956140aa6bf78f02202ab4df1e942ce672ae
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One of my biggest hopes for the steamdeck is that it prompts Discord to fix their shit
They even forcefully disabled support for it in their version of electron, so there isn't even a way to use it via a betterdiscord plugin
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Sharing screens with sound is still not supported in Discord for Linux, and it is the only reason I dual-boot Windows. Please upvote the feature request!
The Discord Desktop app uses Electron and their Electron fork's source code is available on Github. If you take a look at their repo you'll see that one of the patches they apply is this one https://github.com/discord/electron/commit/ca8c921ed35c741acae57ea32c340f1eaf150044 that disables getUserMedia.
ashpd
Posts with mentions or reviews of ashpd.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-21.
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Zoom can now (as of version 5.11.0) share screen on Wayland
ASHPD Demo is a great app that demonstrates what kinds of things that can be handled by the Freedesktop.org Portals system. It's available as a Flatpak on Flathub.
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ASHPD 0.2 release, a XDG DBus portals wrapper in Rust
Detailed release notes can be found at https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/ashpd/releases/tag/0.2.0
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zbus 2.0 (Super easy! Barely an inconvenience) is out!
For reference, the client code can be found at https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/ashpd & the server one at https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Rust/search-provider. When we ported the later from dbus-rs lately, we noticed it is way faster (with a debug build!) then a similar code with dbus-rs
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Rust DBus service with state managed by async code advice?
From what I gather, zbus seems to be by far the best at the moment, it is what it is used by https://github.com/bilelmoussaoui/ashpd for example.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing electron and ashpd you can also consider the following projects:
Screenshare-with-audio-on-Discord-with-Linux - A repo trying to gather all info regarding proper screensharing on Discord with Desktop Audio for linux users
dbus-rs - D-Bus binding for the Rust language
discord-screenaudio - A custom discord client that supports streaming with audio on Linux.
libportal - libportal - Flatpak portal library
Soundux - 🔊 A cross-platform soundboard
rusqlite - Ergonomic bindings to SQLite for Rust
obs-studio - OBS Studio - Free and open source software for live streaming and screen recording
handlr - A better xdg-utils
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
wgpu-rs - Rust bindings to wgpu native library
discord - RPM Package for discord
flatpak-external-data-checker - A tool for checking if the external data used in Flatpak manifests is still up to date