Comment by wren6991

4 days ago

Using Tauri on Linux gave me appreciation for why Electron just ships an entire browser. WebKitGTK is kinda rough around the edges.

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egeozcan  4 days ago

I vibe-coded a paste manager using wails (https://github.com/egeozcan/mahpastes), and I'm currently on linux (bazzite) and I have 0 problems with the rendering.

  • wren6991  4 days ago

    One of the things I hit is that there is no way to trigger an "open folder" dialog. It gets mapped to "open file" instead. The correct hooks exist in both WebKit and in GTK, but not wired up in WebKitGTK. I think the fix would be quite minor but I looked into what is involved in raising a patch and decided to leave it. There are a lot of minor paper cuts like this.

    I did hit a couple of CSS or rendering quirks, but the rendering perf also seemed noticeably poor, and that's harder to live with.

  • Arrowmaster  3 days ago

    Try it on an older LTS distro release that is still under distro support or even better, one that's under extended paid only support. Anything pre 2022 is probably completely broken and anything pre 2024 might have strange bugs. There was a great one where building a Tauri or Wails app on Ubuntu 22.04 for better compatibility but running it on a newer distro had a font rendering bug because of the older Webkit2Gtk. Trying to display emojis crashed the apps.