Tangram

Run web apps on your desktop

About

Tangram is a new kind of browser. It is designed to organize and run your Web applications. Each tab is persistent and independent. You can set multiple tabs with different accounts for the same application.

Common use cases:

• Stay up to date with your favorite communities; Mastodon, Twitter, ...
• Merge all these chat applications into one; WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, ...
• Group your organization tools under one application; EMail, Calendar, ...
• One-stop for multiple sources of documentation or information

Installation

Reporting an issue

Before submitting a compatibility issue with a Website, please try to reproduce it with GNOME Web. If you can, report the issue to WebKitGTK, the Web engine behind Tangram and GNOME Web.

Features

• Setup and manage web applications
• Persistent and independent tabs
• Custom title
• Re-order tabs
• Change tabs position
• Navigation
• Shortcuts
• Smart notifications
• Downloads
• Touchpad/touchscreen gestures

Security

Both Flatpak and non-Flatpak versions of Tangram provide sandboxing for Web applications.

• Flatpak via our restricted permissions
• Non-Flatpak through WebkitGTK Sandboxing (requires WebkitGTK >= 2.26)

In the media

GNU/Linux.ch – Tangram - eine neue Art des Webbrowsers (Review) - 2021-04

Chris Were Digital - Tangram a browser just for web apps share.tube / youtube.com - 2021-02

addictivetips.com - How to run web apps with ease on Linux - 2020-09

ubunlog.com - Tangram, nueva opción basada en GNOME para agrupar nuestras web-apps - 2020-09

edivaldobrito.com.br - Como instalar o navegador Tangram no Linux via Flatpak - 2020-08

linux-magazine.com - Tangram integrates social media services in a single app - 2020-06

linux-community.de - Tangram integriert Social-Media-Dienste und Messenger in eine App - 2020-02

linuxdicasesuporte.blogspot.com - Navegador Tangram no GNU/Linux - 2019-11

diolinux.com.br - Tangram, um app para gerenciar Webapps - 2019-09

Development

Install packages

Install dependencies

cd Tangram
git submodule init
git submodule update
npm install

Run

cd Tangram
./run.sh

./run.sh runs the application in development mode. Hit <Ctrl><Shift>Q to restart the application.

• data files are stored in ./var/data/ instead of $XDG_DATA_HOME/Tangram/
• cache files are stored in ./var/cache/ instead of XDG_CACHE_HOME/Tangram/

To test desktop notifications you can add https://jhmux.codesandbox.io/.

Test

make test

Meson

meson --reconfigure --prefix $PWD/install build
ninja -C build install
GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=./install/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ ./install/bin/re.sonny.Tangram

Flatpak

flatpak-builder --user --force-clean --install-deps-from=flathub flatpak re.sonny.Tangram.json
flatpak-builder --run flatpak re.sonny.Tangram.json re.sonny.Tangram

Flatpak sandboxed

flatpak-builder --user  --force-clean --repo=repo --install-deps-from=flathub flatpak re.sonny.Tangram.json
flatpak --user remote-add --no-gpg-verify --if-not-exists Tangram repo
flatpak --user install --reinstall --assumeyes Tangram re.sonny.Tangram

Inspect

gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.Debug enable-inspector-keybinding true
GTK_DEBUG=interactive ./run.sh

Release

git tag $VERSION
git push origin $VERSION
# send PR to https://github.com/flathub/re.sonny.Tangram/blob/master/re.sonny.Tangram.json

Credits

Icon by Tobias Bernard

Igalia and contributors for the amazing work on WebKitGTK

Inspired by GNOME Web, Rambox and Franz.

See also Wavebox and Station.