Loomio

Franz integration

RDB Richard D. Bartlett Public Seen by 124

I am really enjoying an open source desktop app called Franz, which I use to wrap up all my messengers into one place. Somehow feels much less noisy & distracting compared to having desktop/ or web apps open for each of: FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Slack & Discord.

I think it is basically just an Electron browser that loads each web app into a nice little tab that is easy to switch on and off.

I had an idle wondering: would it be possible to make a Franz plugin so I can have my Loomio inbox alongside all my other messengers?

No idea how much work is involved, the docs make it sound easy, so I'm just dropping this here in case any of you devs think it is a fun and easy project.

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martin ➬ Sun 17 Mar 2019 8:23PM

@richarddbartlett rather than integrating with one specific UI, why not provide integration with the Matrix protocol instead, allowing any Matrix client to be used? Matrix also already provides integrations for most of the other messengers/platforms you list… I just feel like doing it at the UI level is a lot of work for little gain, whereas the protocol-layer might mean a bit more work, but exponentially bigger gains…

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Danyl Strype Thu 28 Mar 2019 10:02AM

At the risk of charging completely off-topic, everything mentioned here is something I'd want to replace with a free code app:
* FB Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack & Discord: use something like Wire, Gitter, or a Matrix client, depending on the use case and features required
* Twitter: use a fediverse app
* LinkedIn: depends on the use case and features required

All of these can be used as web apps, so AFAICT a browser window with pinned tabs would give the functionality @richarddbartlett describes. There's certainly some subtleties of the combo UX I'm missing here, so a more detailed description of the features you get from this combo would be helpful. Back on-topic, such a description might also be helpful to anyone taking a crack at the integration Rich is asking for.

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Patrick Connolly Sun 18 Aug 2019 3:20AM

Discussion of alternative tools aside, Franz 5 integration looks really easy: https://github.com/meetfranz/recipe-gmail/blob/master/webview.js

Just use css selector to find the count, and point to loomio message screen url with ServiceURL in package.json. could maybe even fork gmail recipe and customize it purely from github ui

RG

Robert Guthrie Wed 21 Aug 2019 1:17AM

Sounds great. Is this something you could contribute?

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Patrick Connolly Wed 21 Aug 2019 3:07AM

Thanks for asking. I've been meaning to try Franz, but until I do, this task will be a bit back burner for me :)

RG

Robert Guthrie Wed 21 Aug 2019 3:40AM

Fair enough. Thanks for the tip, I'll see who I can connect it to.