I would love to see a Leo server. Clients could include web browsers, python desktop apps, java apps, android/iOS apps...
Chris On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 8:57 AM, Terry Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 07:00:47 -0800 (PST) > "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm not finding the Atom text editor running in a browser, > > > although I see some initiatives to get that to happen. Which > > > re-enforces my concern that Electron isn't really addressing the > > > over the network in a browser truly zero install Leo which to me is > > > the point of an HTML based interface. > > > > I called this thread "Making LeoVue a desktop app" to emphasize that > > installing LeoVue *would *still be required. Afaik, a zero-install > > Leo is out of reach. IPython and Jupyter require desktop > > installation. That seems like a reasonable approach. > > Well, everything has to be installed *somewhere* :) > > What I mean is that I can buy a new computer, connect it to the > internet, and go to: > > https://kaleguy.github.io/leovue/#/t/1 > > and I'm using Leo on the web... except it's read only. I think any > read / write browser interface for Leo must provide the same zero > install access. Jupyter notebooks can be accessed this way too. > > So sure, for development and for general use if the browser interface > replaces the Qt interface you'd do something like: > > python launchLeo.py --gui=html > firefox http://127.0.0.1:8730/ > > and it would all be local / desktop > > Key point is that http://127.0.0.1:8730/ could be > http://my.server.com/leo/ or maybe http://leohost.com/tbrown/ ;-) > without any additional work (hosting setup aside). And while I would > think Electron apps. could work that way, I don't see it in an > extremely superficial skimming of the interwebs. > > Seems to me that Electron is focused on making local desktop apps. > using a javascript / browser stack, which isn't part of the challenge > of "browser Leo", in my opinion. > > If the goal is being able to use cool web/html visualizations in Leo > on the desktop, they can just be embedded in QWebEngineView, problem > solved. > > To me the goal is Leo being anywhere there's a web browser :) > > Cheers -Terry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
