Bring your creative workflow directly to your Linux desktop. Design Studio PWA is a standalone wrapper that brings powerful web-based graphic design suites out of your browser tabs and into a native, dedicated application window.
Packaged securely under Ubuntu's strict AppArmor confinement, this application ensures your host system remains entirely safe while granting you full, uninterrupted access to your favorite cloud-based design tools.
Key Features:
Dedicated Workspace: Keep your graphic design projects separated from your daily web browsing.
Strict Confinement: Runs in a heavily restricted sandbox, ensuring the app cannot access your system files without explicit permission.
Multimedia Ready: Pre-configured with custom audio routing to ensure video playback and UI notification sounds work seamlessly out of the box on modern Linux hosts.
Native Desktop Integration: Binds perfectly to the GNOME/Ubuntu Activities menu for a native application feel.
Disclaimer: Design Studio PWA is NOT is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by Canva. This is an independent open-source project. All trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Initial Public Release (v1.0) Welcome to the first official release of Design Studio PWA!
Changelog:
Packaged as a strict snap for maximum host system security.
Implemented custom liboss4-salsa2 overrides to resolve legacy audio dependency crashes in the Electron wrapper.
Enabled native GTK3 fallback support for modern Linux display servers.
Verified and tested for high stability on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
On Arch Linux, snap can be installed from the Arch User Repository (AUR). The manual build process is the Arch-supported install method for AUR packages, and you’ll need the prerequisites installed before you can install any AUR package. You can then install snap with the following:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/snapd.git
cd snapd
makepkg -si
Once installed, the systemd unit that manages the main snap communication socket needs to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.socket
If AppArmor is enabled in your system, enable the service which loads AppArmor profiles for snaps:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor.service
To enable classic snap support, enter the following to create a symbolic link between /var/lib/snapd/snap and /snap:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
Either log out and back in again, or restart your system, to ensure snap’s paths are updated correctly.
To install design-studio-pwa, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install design-studio-pwa
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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