Remove or at least don't force the WebUI

[JagGillarVatten]

It's slow, resource heavy, and is super clunky since it doesn't allow you to right click. I like it as a additional feature but not as the only option. Been downgrading to pre web-GUI releases cause I just can't stand it.
It's a downgrade in every single way.
I know this is kind of just me crying about some personal opinion but I genially love this program and the progress it has made.

[SpudmanWP]

I run it on a TrueNAS server in a Linux VM as the only app that runs. It'd be nice to not have to open the VM, run the app, and close the UI in order to run it. It'd be nice to set it to run at startup as a service?

btw, Super impressed with the performance of the new WebUI version.

[ichorid]

@JagGillarVatten—I completely understand your sentiment, but as a former Tribler developer, I can tell you that supporting QT was literally hell, and it became utterly infeasible in the long run. Web tech is a bit clunkier, but it is 20x easier to support, debug, develop, distribute, and add new features. Peace ✌️

[qstokkink]

@JagGillarVatten Thanks for the feedback! Adding a context menu should be possible in the web GUI: we just haven't implemented it. The GUI also shouldn't be slower: is there anything that feels slow to you in particular?

Regarding web GUI removal: we will be sticking with the web GUI for (at the very least) the near future. As @ichorid pointed out, we've burned many developers on GUI work. We're now down to 1.5 full-time developer (counting myself as 1/2 a developer) and it would slow down our project to a crawl otherwise.

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@SpudmanWP you can run Tribler using the -s or --server option: this does not launch a GUI. Using it as a startup service should be a matter of adding tribler -s & to your bashrc.

[SpudmanWP]

@JagGillarVatten Thanks for the feedback! Adding a context menu should be possible in the web GUI: we just haven't implemented it. The GUI also shouldn't be slower: is there anything that feels slow to you in particular?

Regarding web GUI removal: we will be sticking with the web GUI for (at the very least) the near future. As @ichorid pointed out, we've burned many developers on GUI work. We're now down to 1.5 full-time developer (counting myself as 1/2 a developer) and it would slow down our project to a crawl otherwise.

@SpudmanWP you can run Tribler using the -s or --server option: this does not launch a GUI. Using it as a startup service should be a matter of adding tribler -s & to your bashrc.

Thanks, I'll try this soon.

[JagGillarVatten]

Understood. Thanks for the insight.
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[qstokkink]

I think we can look at adding a context menu for the 8.2.0 release.

[qstokkink]

Actually, the context menu is already in #8443. Rescheduled for the 8.1.0 release.

[qstokkink]

Merged 🎉 We now have a context menu again.