Penpot Desktop Project

[carolina.portugal]

Hello @Adrian_Ling right now we are looking for a developer to improve the desktop app:

Penpot Desktop: Looking for a new developer

[image] What’s Happening As of April 23rd this year, SudoVanilla has made major changes to how things work in it’s infrastructure and development as part of it’s major update on it’s new domain. A major decision was made at this time to it’s desktop development which includes it’s projects like Nexus Polestar, Electron templates, and most importantly Penpot Desktop. All desktop development was dropped and deprecated. This means Penpot Desktop was no longer getting updates that is needed, even…

[Belar]

For anyone looking for the source code of the Penpot Desktop project, the code hosting must have moved because it is now available at https://ark.sudovanilla.org/Korbs/Penpot-Desktop. It is still discontinued, though.

I looked into the project and can share the good news that it still runs. I also wonder if it should be revived and in what form.

In its current state, the Penpot Desktop is like a Penpot browser. It is similar to opening the Penpot app (the official or a self-hosted one) with a Chromium-based browser (Chrome, Edge etc.), but with a dedicated UI. That means customisation is possible around the app, but limited in the app itself. That may be enough, but it depends on the expectations towards a Penpot desktop app.

With that, I thought I would check with others on how they see Penpot’s desktop experience. What do you expect from a Penpot desktop application? How would it benefit you compared to opening the app in a browser?