It is a limitation of a PWA. A native app (wrapper) will likely be coming though, and a custom Capacitor plugin could theoretically interface with the native API to switch out icons. Theoretically. No promises though :)
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Well… Part of that is just that web apps have much worse efficiency and performance compared to native apps. That’s not to say their performance and efficiency is bad, but a native app will beat a web app everytime. The DOM and JavaScript are just not great models in terms of efficiency and performance.
Problematic
I get lots of random freezes, actions not registering, etc
Doesn’t make it unuseable, but it’s not a great experience
I think it’s acceptable, though I am working on my own … for now experimental … Lemmy client in C++/Qt/QML … maybe eventually for desktop and mobile devices alike :)
