Orion for Linux

deshonium

Vlad Ogromna podrška i zahvalnost na svemu ovome što radite.
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TheDarkWizard

Hopefully, you guys release an alpha/beta or RC so that we can provide feedback and testing along the way.

Letho

Hello there, and thank you for bringing Orion to Linux.

As others pointed out, I really think you should focus on Flatpak for packaging – a simple tar archive would be good enough for early releases.

I'd be happy to subscribe to Orion+ as soon as a preview version is released.

hashrack456

Thank you for working on Linux version of Orion browser. I would love to see it release flatpak version. You can cover almost all mainstream Linux distro using flatpak. Good to see Libadwaita is being used. I am using libadwaita apps in KDE and I am happy with it. We need more Linux apps. Again. thank you very much.

EliteAMDGamer

Vlad it’s looking nice. Will it be possible to put tabs under the address bar panel like safari. I understand side tabs are all the rage but accessibility wise. They’re a bit more difficult.

Pan_con_palta_99

The browser looks beautiful, using Libadwaita was definitely the right choice.

RayE

Happy to see the progress. Not a fan of Libadwaita, hopefully it is an option like other apps, but better than nothing.

alexjsteffen

Vlad LOOKS amazing. Great job so far. Finally a decent client for WebKit on Linux. Look forward to testing it on Arch once you feel that it's ready.

Thalavox

Awesome to see progress here. I already joined the mailing list and will be more than happy to try Orion on Linux once it is available. I would much prefer a Windows build just because that is the OS at my workplace and (purely for gaming) at home, but still great to see that Orion will come to more systems besides Macs!

longtimeuser4

I know I'm probably too late on this but even Firefox is GTK based and it works and looks fine to me, not only on KDE but on all the Tilling Window Managers I have used both on wayland and x11, so I don't see why only one of KDE or Gnome has to be supported.

EliteAMDGamer

It’s a bit unfortunate. This just recently became a thing it would’ve been quite nice for this project.
https://github.com/xapp-project/libadapta by the Linux mint and cinnamon teams. Global menu supports would’ve had to have been something special still. But it would’ve gotten everything else basically there for every other desktop environment.

Lenni-builder

I just came here to suggest libAdapta support as well, especially if you build a Flatpak. It uses the default (GNOME) libAdwaita theme by default and applies custom ones if available (so either on themed GNOME or other DEs)

hashrack456

Please stick with libadwaita.

RayE

Too many think Gnome is the only desktop environment. It is not even the only desktop environment with a large user base. No reason for Libadwaita to be required. It is easy to make it optional. But at the same time, I just want it to get out first.

Lenni-builder

hashrack456 What would the advantages of libadwaita over libadapta be? Libadapta should behave exactly the same by default unless you explicitly want to theme/customize it.

Pan_con_palta_99

Lenni-builder Libadapta uses an old version of libadwaita.

nashv

I am happy to learn that you have chosen libadwaita. The consisteny and modern look in the interface is very welcome. And while, I can appreiciate that KDE is also popular, recent surverys have suggested that the main plus point of KDE over Gnome (customization) is not something most people engage in anyway.

In my opinion, Gnome is currently the most polished DE. And Orion benefits from it - not least because the 2 most popular Linux distros - Ubuntu and Fedora come with Gnome as "default" .

clintre

nashv Gnome and KDE are now both default options for Fedora due to their growing popularity over the last few years. The repos for the apps my company supports, are about 50/50 between the two on pulls. Our apps have libadwaita as optional so that it looks native on both Gnome and non Gnome desktops. It is an easy switch to have and does not cause maintenance overhead. The problem with Libadwaita is that it does not look good on KDE and looks out of place. Not that libadwaita is bad on Gnome, which it does indeed look good.

Vlad

clintre How do your apps make libadwaita optional? Is the dev burden doubled because of that? Really curious about details of implementation.

Lenni-builder

Vlad You could look into Ghostty's code to see how it does it. It has an option to disable libadwaita. But that disables some Libadwaita-only elements (like the tab overview for example), which Libadapta wouldn't do.

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