I’m fine with the Proton Mail desktop client being an Electron app, but it still need to use desktop-based interactions. For example, when right clicking on the inbox, I expect to see options to mark all as read etc. - not an Inspect Element menu (that actually works and opens up devtools inside Proton Mail).
And to those that can’t cope with 3981 unread emails - I’ve just imported from Gmail, and a lot of them appeared as unread, which is why I’m now looking for a way to mark all as read.
What does being an electron app mean and how is a weird right click menu an indicator of that?
Electron is chromium, so it’s essentially just a browser window (hence the inspect element). It’s quicker to develop, but much more resource intensive than a native app could be. It’s generally frowned upon as a ‘lazy’ approach.
What if I don’t already have chrome installed?
Electron is standalone Chromium under the hood, which is part of why it is considered to be resource-heavy: a separate browser engine for each application.
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