Run Brackets as a Chrome Packaged App

[huningxin]

According to Chrome Packaged Apps (http://developer.chrome.com/apps/), it will be a web app runtime breaking out of browser and be able to access more native platform capabilities such as files, windows and devices. Do you guys consider to run brackets as a Chrome Packaged App?

The benefits I can see include:

1. Multiple platforms support: support Windows, OSX and Linux by default.
2. To leverage native platform capabilities accessing of chrome instead of custom v8/CEF3 bindings.
   For example, brackets could use chrome.fileSystem.* (http://developer.chrome.com/apps/fileSystem.html) to access native files via W3C file API (directory support is in progress). Brackets could also use chrome.app.window.* (http://developer.chrome.com/apps/app.window.html) to handle application window creation, position, sizing and even title bar customization.

Any of your thoughts?

[pthiess]

Move to Backlog

[tsi]

+1

[jasonsanjose]

There is a thread about Chrome Packaged Apps on the group https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/brackets-dev/y_B97tl8Zuo/6C3Qyy4BbZ0J.

[pthiess]

Added Trello Card #698, closing.