Should Cockpit Client install in System rather than Internet?

[bigntallmike]

The Cockpit Client flatpak installs as an "Internet" application when it seems obvious to me that its a system application instead. That's all.

[Venefilyn]

Currently Cockpit Client is essentially a browser with added feature of allowing SSH authentication and having some local storage for recent connections. If it were a proper system application we'd likely run into a lot of issues as each distro might do something different or have newer vs older tools available.

If we were to have a system application, how should it behave when connecting to an older distro? A lot of the features are not working anymore as we moved to replacements tools or started using newer features.

In short, leaving the UI itself to the server is the easiest approach. There are likely some speed-up improvements in regards to fetching the web content we could make, but those are negligible and better spent optimizing the rendering and reducing dependencies if possible.

What would be cool is having more features to Cockpit Client, but that is a bit unrelated