Sorry I know I should just dig back through the forum, but everything is changing too fast currently.
Is there any set in stone plans / mockup / roadmap for this.
There absolutely needs to be a one-click-run
Launcher pops up, able to be minimized to tray.
tabs for the primary abilities [Browser] , [Node] , [wallet] , [storage]
we probably need to ship a built in browser, like the Tor browser, simply modified for browsing Autonomi
Storage API? I don’t know the best way to build something into the launcher to be able to browse your private files in a very neat a clean way (This shouldn’t require someone building something from the ground up to be maintained)
There should be something out there available that can just be included with a little touch up.
Wallet… I don’t know maybe electron needs to be included, so that it can appear like the metamask setup is taking place inside that GUI launcher, instead of trying to do something external
The node should hopefully always keep a tray icon running, so that people know the node is either running, or inactive, or errored out in some way… etc, etc
The only official plans I know of are for a GUI version of the launchpad, but I expect they do have other things in mind.
dweb is nearly ready for release, pending uploads working. This will start with publishing and viewing websites. Like awe but with a standard browser.
It will support much more in time, too many ideas to list, but one is that it will be able to provide a web style API (RESTful) for Autonomi. So web apps that talk to Autonomi as if it was a web server, via dweb. The possibilities of that are endless, so I will leave that to the imagination for now.
I’d love to see something like this emerge, whether from the community, or Autonomi themselves.
What scale of a project would it be to:
Fork an open source browser that supports Extensions to be able to browse Autonomi sites (is this what you’ve done with dweb @happybeing?)
Build extensions for wallet, upload/download/publish, running & managing nodes etc
Is it the kind of thing where 1 dev per feature could get it together, or is it likely to be more complex… or impossible to say?
I expect extensions would be better than building it all into a super-app, as then different devs / teams could create competing wallets, publishing / file management interfaces, node management interfaces etc.
I have nothing much to bring to this kind of project, but agree something like this is needed to make the network easy to interact with.
That is an amazing start. What good is a new internet nobody can browse or publish to? Looking forward to seeing what you have been working on
How many people are working on this? Are you developing an Autonomi browser with publishing + many more ideas in the works all on your own?
When dweb implements the Autonomi API people can build web apps using it, which means anything you can do with Autonomi will be possible with a web app running in a standard browser, directly on Autonomi.
Tl;Dr: I don’t see why not, but I won’t be building that kind of app myself.
awe was my experiment with an Autonomi browser and showed that was not a viable route for me. The reasons are summarised in the readme.
dweb was going to be something simple, a route to an rclone backup app. But having figured out the architecture for this I realised it could do what I was attempting with awe and a lot more.
So many possibilities in fact that I will never be able to implement them all. But yes, right now I’m the only person working on this.
I’m happiest working on my own, but hope that the potential features of dweb will be separate enough to allow others to take on aspects that interest them. My plan is to set those out as ‘issues’ which others can pick up.
I’m really hoping that they have much bigger plans for the GUI node thing.
I just can’t possibly see how anyone sees any kind of adoption beyond the people that have already been here for years now… without pretty much exactly what I detailed.
I’m going to try to just make a mockup of what the launcher would look like to me, hopefully it gets people rolling that can actually do programming.
It seems like “Penpot” is the highest recommended FOSS GUI prototyper, I’ll see if I can make something with it.
It can’t see it with blockchain in the way, no route to paying nodes with a native token and Autonomi having to put lots of effort into hiding all the problems created by using ERC20.
He hasn’t been around in awhile, but I think it would be great if @Miguelo could help with something like this. I agree that greater adoption depends on easier accessibility and usability.
