jewel / apple-pie

Create chromium app-mode shortcuts for GNOME

Apple Pie

Apple Pie is a helper script to make easy launchers for websites in chrome's app mode, each with their own profile. This accomplishes a few things:

• App mode lets webapps behave more like a normal application on the desktop for things like alt-tab, iconography, etc.

• Separate profiles mean that different apps won't be able to track your behavior from site to site.

• Separate profiles let you be logged into multiple google/twitter/facebook accounts at once

• Easy launching from ~/bin, either from the command line or gbashrun

• Fine control of profiles lets you share profile in some cases. For example, I have gcal, gmail, gdrive shortcuts for work.

Installation

Copy or symlink apple-pie into your path.

Install ruby and curl.

Install the pismo gem. This is used to download site icons.

Usage

Arguments are:

• friendly_name: Name that's visible in some places in gnome
• url: Start URL. Derived from friendly name if not given
• profile: Unique name for the profile. Derived from friendly name if not given

Copy apple-pie to ~/bin. Create shell scripts like:

#!/bin/sh
apple-pie Pandora

A more advanced setup would look like this:

#!/bin/sh
apple-pie 'Work Calendar' https://calendar.google.com work-google

Contributing

Pull requests welcome!