The upcoming major release of the desktop environment, GNOME 43, will have a number of novel features, some of which are already starting to gain notoriety even though the initial alpha has not yet been made available. One of the most intriguing of those things is the restored support for web applications and extensions.
little by bit. We are, of course, talking to extension functionality in GNOME Web, the GNOME Project browser that comes with every desktop environment release when we talk about extensions on the Web. Call it Epiphany or GNOME Web; either way, it's a small alternative that has always existed but has recently started to become more relevant.
Definition of "extension support" Exactly that, but beautifully done: support for installing Firefox extensions in GNOME Web, not just support for four separate extensions. The implementation of several APIs is being used by GNOME developers, and these APIs would already have suitable components like tabs, storage, notifications, and downloads added to them.
Having said that, it is not anticipated that GNOME Web 43 will be as advanced as Firefox itself, or even whether it will be when they do, but everything is just getting started. It will be important to monitor how it develops and in what form it is provided, but it is undeniably a potential feature that, in theory, can already be explored.
The support of web applications, one of GNOME Software's novelties that does appear to be ready to boost the introduction of GNOME 43, follows on from the support of extensions in GNOME Web. With a focus on PWAs, webapps will have a spot in the application store by default (Progressive Web Apps or progressive web applications).
However, there are some concerns with this because, generally speaking, web applications, PWA or not, are linked to the web browser that is currently active, the web browser with which they were installed, so we will also need to see how they address it: will they be web applications that are only available through GNOME Web and have a more sophisticated level of desktop integration? Back then
Or are applications for the electron also being discussed? There are many of them available there, as well as in Flatpak format on Flathub, and Canonical first recognized them as a Snap Store incentive years ago. Namely. When we see it, we'll know.
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