New blog post: The quest for Electron LTS

[Daeraxa]

In the beginning, Atom appeared. It created an API to make packages, but together with this API, it also allowed authors to use web APIs together with node.js packages, modules (including "native modules" - more on that later) and, finally, a special API that was used to communicate between the "main module" and the "browser part".

That last part, eventually, split from Atom and became Electron. And for a while, the Atom development was tied to the Electron one, meaning that an update on Atom usually meant an update on Electron, and vice-versa.

Unfortunately, that wasn't the case for a long time...

Check out the full post on the Pulsar Blog!

[lifeisbard]

Thank you. Keep up the good work!

[Charadon]

Doesn't this mean that wayland support is now just over the horizon?

Also, which branch is all this work on? I'd love to test it out =D

[Charadon]

Here's a screenshot of what pops up when I type something.

[mauricioszabo]

Thanks a lot, @Charadon. That is a known bug - the version of Superstring that comes with the new Electron changed to a more stable API, and there are some undocumented methods and properties (and also implementation details) that are still in use by some packages. I remember fixing this error, but probably there are still other places that it uses. I'll handle this case, thanks again!

[Charadon]

Awesome! Also, I found out that if you set Auto Hide Menu Bar to enabled, the menu bar will response to Alt presses from each launch forward. However, if it's disabled, it won't respond anymore until you toggle it. If I had to take a guess, the menu bar is probably not set to be shown at start anymore, and since Auto Hide Menu Bar isn't on, it doesn't respond to Alt.

[mauricioszabo]

Weird because I am also using the newer Electron branch, and mine do respond to Alt presses (but I'm on Xorg)

[Charadon]

Well, once you guys start releasing those binaries officially, i'll definitely help you guys test and iron out all those weird things =)

Also, I think all this would allow distro maintainers to make pulsar use a shared version of electron, so that means less memory usage!