As a result of your valuable feedback, we’ve been working on making Proton Mail and Calendar easier to use on your desktop.
Today, we reached a significant milestone - the Proton Mail and Calendar desktop apps for Windows and macOS are now available in beta for all supporters on paid Proton plans. We’re also working on the Linux app and will release it soon for testing.
🗓 Easier access to Calendar via the app switcher on macOS
🚨 Notification badge for unread messages
🔤 Improved accessibility and font support
⏩ Easy Switch and Gmail sync can now be set up from within the app, allowing you to easily sync emails, contacts, and calendars from non-Proton accounts
💜 The option to set Proton Mail as your default email client on macOS
But Proton also insists on doing the packaging and distribution of it outside the ordinary distribution paths Linux distros uses (apt/yum/dnf repos or flatpak) … So they waste time and energy on getting stuff working properly across a broader range of Linux distributions.
The end result will therefore most likely be a poorer user experience where some features don’t work well on some distros. Depending on how their “package” will manage to integrate on the distro installing it.
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Isn’t this effectively just an Electron (or whatever) wrapper for the web app?
@amju_wolf @alex_herrero
Yupp, that’s my understanding as well.
But Proton also insists on doing the packaging and distribution of it outside the ordinary distribution paths Linux distros uses (apt/yum/dnf repos or flatpak) … So they waste time and energy on getting stuff working properly across a broader range of Linux distributions.
The end result will therefore most likely be a poorer user experience where some features don’t work well on some distros. Depending on how their “package” will manage to integrate on the distro installing it.