[Showcase & Proposal] Native Linux Desktop Client for DeepSeek Harness (Tauri v2 + WebKit2GTK)

[jasmin1727]

Hi DeepSeek team and community,

I noticed the repo ships desktop builds for macOS and Windows but not Linux, so I put together a native Linux client for DeepSeek Harness. It's built with Tauri v2, Rust and WebKit2GTK instead of Electron, so it's much lighter. In my testing it uses under 80 MB of RAM.

What it does

• Daemon supervision: starts and monitors the Node.js daemon (@deepseek-ai/dsh) on loopback port 3000 and restarts it if it crashes
• WebSocket bridge: a Tokio-based multiplexer that streams reasoning output in real time
• Desktop integration: app menu entry (GNOME, KDE, Hyprland, Rofi), SVG and 512px icons, and a dsh:// URL handler
• Packaging: GitHub Actions builds standalone binaries, .deb and .AppImage packages

Try it

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jasmin1727/deepseek-harness/master/linux-install.sh | bash

Source

https://github.com/jasmin1727/deepseek-harness (in apps/desktop-linux)

Status

This is an early version and not feature-complete yet. I plan to keep adding to it. Since public PRs are disabled on this repo, I'm sharing it here as an issue. Feedback is welcome, and if the maintainers are interested in a Linux client upstream, I'm happy to help with that.