Tangram

Browser for your pinned tabs

About

Tangram is a new kind of browser. It is designed to organize and run your Web applications. Each tab is persistent and independent. You can set multiple tabs with different accounts for the same application.

Common use cases:

• Stay up to date with your favorite communities; Mastodon, Twitter, ...
• Merge all these chat applications into one; WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, ...
• Group your organization tools under one application; EMail, Calendar, ...
• One-stop for multiple sources of documentation or information

Features

• Setup and manage web applications
• Persistent and independent tabs
• Custom title
• Re-order tabs
• Change tabs position
• Navigation
• Shortcuts
• Smart notifications
• Downloads
• Touchpad/touchscreen gestures

Security

Tabs are independant and sandboxed from each others.

Both Flatpak and non-Flatpak versions of Tangram provide sandboxing for Web applications.

• Flatpak via our restricted permissions
• Non-Flatpak through WebkitGTK Sandboxing (requires WebkitGTK >= 2.26)

In the media

omglinux.com - Tangram for Linux is a Browser Built for Web Apps - 2023-01

TechHut - 5 AWESOME LINUX APPS - GNOME Circle odysee.com / youtube.com - 2022-02

Tangram - Manage Social Media sites on #Linux and #GNOME (#shorts) youtube.com - 2021-11

TechHut - NEW Kind of Web Browser on Linux odysee.com / youtube.com - 2021-10

techrepublic.com - Try this Linux web browser dedicated solely to web applications - 2021-09

Conheça programas para profissionais que usam Linux - Diolinux App Showcase #9 youtube.com - 2021-05

GNU/Linux.ch – Tangram - eine neue Art des Webbrowsers (Review) - 2021-04

Chris Were Digital - Tangram a browser just for web apps share.tube / youtube.com - 2021-02

How to run web apps with ease on Linux youtube.com - 2020-11

addictivetips.com - How to run web apps with ease on Linux - 2020-09

ubunlog.com - Tangram, nueva opción basada en GNOME para agrupar nuestras web-apps - 2020-09

ubunlog.com - Tangram, a new option based on GNOME to group our web-apps - 2020-09

edivaldobrito.com.br - Como instalar o navegador Tangram no Linux via Flatpak - 2020-08

linux-magazine.com - Tangram integrates social media services in a single app - 2020-06

linux-community.de - Tangram integriert Social-Media-Dienste und Messenger in eine App - 2020-02

linuxdicasesuporte.blogspot.com - Navegador Tangram no GNU/Linux - 2019-11

diolinux.com.br - Tangram, um app para gerenciar Webapps - 2019-09

Translation

If you'd like to help translating Tangram into your language, please head over to Weblate.

Thank you for your help!

Development

Use GNOME Builder.

If you knwo what you are doing - you can run from source locally instead:

./run.sh runs the application in development mode. Hit <Ctrl><Shift>Q to restart the application.

• data files are stored in ./var/data/ instead of $XDG_DATA_HOME/Tangram/
• cache files are stored in ./var/cache/ instead of XDG_CACHE_HOME/Tangram/

To test desktop notifications you can add https://jhmux.codesandbox.io/.

Test

make test

Meson

meson --reconfigure --prefix $PWD/install build
ninja -C build install
GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=./install/share/glib-2.0/schemas/ ./install/bin/re.sonny.Tangram

Flatpak

flatpak-builder --user --force-clean --install-deps-from=flathub flatpak re.sonny.Tangram.json
flatpak-builder --run flatpak re.sonny.Tangram.json re.sonny.Tangram

Flatpak sandboxed

flatpak-builder --user  --force-clean --repo=repo --install-deps-from=flathub flatpak re.sonny.Tangram.json
flatpak --user remote-add --no-gpg-verify --if-not-exists Tangram repo
flatpak --user install --reinstall --assumeyes Tangram re.sonny.Tangram

Inspect

gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.Debug enable-inspector-keybinding true
GTK_DEBUG=interactive ./run.sh

Release

# bump meson.build version
git tag $VERSION
git push origin $VERSION
# send PR to https://github.com/flathub/re.sonny.Tangram/blob/master/re.sonny.Tangram.json

Credits

Icon by Tobias Bernard

Igalia and contributors for the amazing work on WebKitGTK

Inspired by GNOME Web, Rambox and Franz.

See also Wavebox and Station.