Any chance to stop the deskshell-chrome from calling home?

[sihorton]

Any chance to stop the deskshell-chrome from calling home?

[sihorton]

We are using an "off-the-shelf" chrome so it will phone home and do various stuff. The following site lists all of the available flags: http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
In the future we will be able to switch to a CEF / CEF3 based browser. Ingwie is working with appjs and will compile a custom version at some point in the future.

Deskshell just boots off chrome so we can switch to a different browser binary if you can find one that is better (and can give us an app like experience).

[negue]

Is it possible to change the commandline flags during "compilation" to an app.exe? Or with some other Config?

If so, i would like to try some flags out, and then post my results.

[sihorton]

The flags are set in node_modules\deskshell-api\index.js (written in javascript) the exe uses that code to launch the chrome binary so you can change and see the effects immediately. Search for chromiumPath. The code is slightly messy but you can add additional array entries after '--disable-translate' (each entry should be a flag that will be sent), or you could change the following line that actually sends all of the flags:

 app.chromium = require('child_process')
 .exec('"'+app.params['chromiumPath']+'" '+app.params['chromiumCmd'].join(' '),function(error, stdout, stderr) {
       if (error) console.log("chromium exec error:"+error);
 });

and just hardcode the flags you want to send. If we cannot fix the problem we can try changing the chrome build we are using or switch to using a different browser.

[negue]

Great, gonna try it later with the index.js, but I think in the future it would be the best to be able to change all frontend custom flags inside the *.desk Config. e.g. "frontendParams" / "frontendFlags"

[sihorton]

Ah yes I had forgotten about that, I have already added support for that. Add the following in your .desk file:-

 ,chromiumFlags:[
       '--flag1'
      ,'--flag2'
 ]

That will pass along the --flag1 and --flag2 in addition to the other flags.