Maybe even do some CPU usage comparisons between Wavebox and similar services but I just don’t have the time for that.
I would really like to run this on a long term basis and determine, or at least, better determine what it is doing. The Sleep Tab feature is very interesting and I have not studied it enough to know exactly how it works because I have received email notifications while the tab was sleeping so it must check periodically. It is, seemingly a much more efficient and integrated experience, really, the best I have ever seen. I would say that this is a far better “Google Experience” than what you would have on a Chromebook. There is a lot of thought and detail put into it. The way that Wavebox bundles the Google Services into one tab and how integrated and purposeful it feels makes this application really quite special. Combine that with the sleep function, this doesn’t feel too bad. Running the 10 Google Services, Riot and Slack, I am using about 490 MiB of RAM, so, 12 services in all on this so about 40.8 MiB per service. I haven’t fully investigated the the contents of the folder but it does keep historical snap version configuration files, which is interesting. The application has another 181 MiB of storage on my home directory in the snap folder. It’s very easy to see how much of your drive is taken up by the application When you sign in, you then configure the default inbox configuration. Setting up the account is much like logging in through a browser or even Kmail, for that matter. The Hangouts button doesn’t give me the hangouts configuration I prefer but it is functional, none the less. I didn’t test all the functions but the ones that did worked as expected. There is a similar “Pick a Colour” selection then you can choose which services it loads into this “tab”.
#WAVEBOX GITHUB INSTALL#
I wanted to install the G-suite of tools and began that process by selecting the Gmail icon when adding an application. I find with all the services running in either a browser or other Chat Unification applications, the CPU usage is noticeable. I don’t know exactly what that means and how it is implemented but if that is what I am thinking it is, that should be more kind to your system when on battery power. What is interesting to me is the ability to put a tab to sleep and stop it after some time of inactivity. What I think is interesting is the different customization features you can specify for each module you add. I elected to setup two-factor authentication which did require me to install an application on my phone… You begin by entering your name, email and password. Going through the process was really quite trivial.
There was no question as to what I needed to do, create an account. It was delightfully… snappy… and when it settled I was greeted with a pleasant interface. When the Application started up, I didn’t notice any lengthy start up time that has been complained about in the past with Snaps.
It should also be noted that the system tray icon also looks great next to the rest of the icons sitting there too. Installation was a snap ( haha) and it created an entry in the application menu of KDE Plasma, just as one would expect. In a terminal I installed Wavebox from the Snap Store: You can look at the details here on the SnapCraft store. It’s described as, “A clever new home for cloud apps on your desktop bringing Gmail, Inbox, Outlook, O365, Trello, Slack & over 1000 more apps into a configurable client.” I had heard wonderful things about Wavebox so it was time to try it out. The application I wanted to try was another Chat Message Unification Application. Snaps were working fantastically well once again. It has mostly been AppImages and Flatpak but I wanted to Snap something into my system. From time to time, I like to play around with the universal packaging available in Linux.
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