Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desktop environment

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  1. greenfield

    HTML5 Wayland compositor :seedling:

    There's Greenfield, a web based Wayland compositor. It has a shim on your machines that uses webrtc or websockets to stream Wayland to the browser. Awesome fricking project. Been around for a while & author keeps slowly honing it. https://github.com/udevbe/greenfield https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29239781

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  3. releases

    i missed this at first glance: the download page does have a "chrome app" option at the bottom

    https://desktop.kerahq.com/download/

    https://gitlab.com/kerahq/releases/-/raw/main/Kera%20Desktop...

  4. awesome-web-desktops

    Websites, web apps, portfolios which look like desktop operating systems

    As a matter of fact there is [1] I'm personally curating it and check up on the links weekly.

    [1] https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops

  5. atuin

    ✨ Magical shell history

    You might be interested in https://github.com/ellie/atuin

    > Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.

  6. Tmuxinator

    Manage complex tmux sessions easily

    I once bought a 32 core ThreadRipper and tried to get along with using a cheap £200 Windows 10 laptop to remote into the threadripper while in coffee shops and use the ThreadRipper to do my work.

    The £200 Windows 10 laptop wasn't powerful enough, it was too laggy. Even on Wifi.

    I love the idea of the X11 protocol. And I still love the idea of a web desktop. Something that is supremely well integrated and allows me to move workloads between client and server seamlessly. This idea I really like. The ability to outsource computation and storage seamlessly. A process can be moved between machines seamlessly.

    This could be modelled in Javascript and promises that can be sent around. Microservices in the desktop environment.

    I looked at tools that would bring up tmux sessions with everything preloaded. (https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator)

    ScrapScript has very good ideas in this area of distributing dependencies and storage. (https://scrapscript.org/) There is also val town.

    I never use KDE Plasma widgets or the sidebar widgets that Mac provided.

    There is so many exciting ideas that could be tried out but I worry they're all too big ideas to be implemented.

  7. Kera-Desktop

    devices with different OS. Thanks to Kera Desktop being cross-platform and its sync function, you will always have the same interface with your stuff regardless of OS.*

    Better integration with web apps. More and more things are already being done on the web. But things are stuck on a browser window. Kera Desktop brings more integration to the web apps with the desktop. When both worlds speak the same language, it will be easier for developers to work. Web apps can draw their windows on Kera Desktop. This alone literally removes a significant border between desktop and web app.

    [1] https://gitlab.com/kerahq/Kera-Desktop#frequenty-asked-quest...

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