Iva Horn: From browser tab to first-class citizen | Nextcloud Community Conference 2026 https://peertube.nextcloud.com/videos/watch/a6aff6ee-991b-4297-bb90-be1c098be46a We welcome everyone to watch the recordings of the lightning talks from the Nextcloud Community Conference 2026! About this lightning talk: Speaker: Iva Horn Title: From browser tab to first-class citizen Description provided by the author: There are already two ways to get Nextcloud out of the browser on a Mac, and each costs you something. The official desktop client makes Files a first-class citizen through a native File Provider extension. CalDAV, CardDAV and IMAP carry calendars, contacts and mail into Apple's own apps, and from there into Notification Center, Spotlight and Siri — but open standards are a lowest common denominator by design. You get the data, not the Nextcloud experience. Everything that makes Nextcloud Nextcloud — Talk, Deck, Notes, the sharing and activity workflows — is still a browser tab.Cirruscope, an unofficial spare-time project, wraps the web interface Nextcloud already builds well and spends the saved effort on the desktop instead: real windows, the server's own apps in the menu bar and Dock, push notifications, native file transfers, keyboard shortcuts you choose. It's also a way into a broader question: one cross-platform client, or a dedicated project per platform? What are lightning talks? Lightning talks are quick presentations from the Nextcloud community about contributing, developing Nextcloud apps, privacy and data sovereignty, and more. We have recorded the lightning talks during the event so everyone who couldn’t make it to the event can watch these inspiring sessions. ⚠️ Note: this is a live recording of a session from an in-person event. Audio and video quality may differ from our studio content. More about the event: https://nextcloud.com/conference-2026/ Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:43:29 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.nextcloud.com Iva Horn: From browser tab to first-class citizen | Nextcloud Community Conference 2026 https://peertube.nextcloud.com/lazy-static/avatars/b63dde0a-7d1d-47e6-95e8-637d4df6ade2.png https://peertube.nextcloud.com/videos/watch/a6aff6ee-991b-4297-bb90-be1c098be46a All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.nextcloud.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. <![CDATA[Iva Horn: From browser tab to first-class citizen | Nextcloud Community Conference 2026 - Iva Horn]]> https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12079 https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12079 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:36:48 GMT @kaffeeringe @nextcloud_main …and that is way beyond the "scratching of my own itch" and "seeing where this goes" for now. 😅

]]> Iva Horn <![CDATA[Iva Horn: From browser tab to first-class citizen | Nextcloud Community Conference 2026 - Iva Horn]]> https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12079 https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12079 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:36:16 GMT @kaffeeringe @nextcloud_main Let's fantasize for a moment.

Some brands, especially in the creative industry, (probably) most famously Adobe, have dedicated apps for managing their suites. This is also known from Native Instruments or Toontrack, as further examples.

That could also work for Nextcloud client apps. Log in once and dedicated apps for your connected servers are installed automatically.

However, that also comes along with magnitudes higher complexity and required effort.

]]> Iva Horn <![CDATA[Iva Horn: From browser tab to first-class citizen | Nextcloud Community Conference 2026 - Iva Horn]]> https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12079 https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12079 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:52:00 GMT @kaffeeringe @nextcloud_main I have even a step further on the roadmap but I fear it results in a too restrictive experience along technical constraints. Right now, the app scales with the server (apps) conveniently and everything is in one place.

https://github.com/i2h3/cirruscope/issues/56

Having one client per server app would move multitasking onto OS level even further but also complicate the currently simple distribution.

https://github.com/i2h3/cirruscope/issues/121

]]> Iva Horn <![CDATA[Iva Horn: From browser tab to first-class citizen | Nextcloud Community Conference 2026 - Tobias Eigen]]> https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12087 https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12087 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:36:31 GMT @nextcloud_main one of my favorite talks! I love that members of the nextcloud team are encouraged to scratch their own itch with side projects like this!

I'd also love to see this (the cirruscope macos app that lets you use nextcloud in an app, not a browser tab!) integrated with the nextcloud desktop client, which has links to the web apps and supports multiple instances!

]]> Tobias Eigen <![CDATA[Iva Horn: From browser tab to first-class citizen | Nextcloud Community Conference 2026 - Steffen Voß]]> https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12079 https://peertube.nextcloud.com/w/mzQ7cPu6C4ua5jehoSDEs7;threadId=12079 Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:24:58 GMT @nextcloud_main I'm not a Mac-user. But I think, this is a way to got. Having everything in the browser is cool for some things. But it's not so practical, when this is the center of your work. I wrote something along the line in my blog: https://kaffeeringe.de/2026/03/18/was-nextcloud-von-microsoft-lernen-kann/

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