Some traders prefer keeping Kite open on a separate browser session. Also, if you have a multi-screen setup, you might want to simply click on an app icon and open up Kite in your browser. Here is how you can use Kite as a desktop app:
Hi Bala, the fix specifically for pop-out charts would be for us to create a new instance of the Kite app which might not require a lot of tech legwork. However, every time a new instance of an app is developed a series of security and system audits have to be performed by the exchange & third party agencies. This exercise can take multiple months to complete if everything is in order.
Our focus at the moment is adding more range of products to the existing Kite.
The most I could achieve directly is opening the popup chart in a new Chrome window (aka it won’t open as a new tab in an already open Chrome instance). For that, you will have to press SHIFT on your keyboard and then click the popup chart’s icon, check this -
For achieving what I showed in the screenshot in the previous post, there is an added step of clicking an icon in Chrome’s address bar and then selecting the App (this would be the name with which you saved the shortcut) and then pressing Open, check this -
It would have been best if the popup chart would have directly opened in the pseudo desktop app created using the Chrome shortcut.
From the limited research I did, it might be possible (using something like protocol handlers in Chrome (set at the user’s end) but I couldn’t make it work for this shortcut (pseudo) app). Maybe someone more knowledgable than me would know (In case, someone is interested, this might be helpful starting point Chrome 84+: A website wants to open this application: Handlers - Stack Overflow).
If by pop up windows you mean pop up charts as in the above posts, I think that is possible to do normally as well. It can be done via the shortcut as well (but will require 2 steps as I explained in the previous post)
I don’t think Zerodha gives any option for popping out the Market Depth in a separate window. We can open multiple shortcut windows and stack them in a way that more than one market depth is visible on the screen at a time but it will be a bit messy and cluttered
The web is malleable. It is possible to create some fix for your mkt-depth req in kite. You can open a popup chart window but hide the chart and just show mkt-depth from a user script or a browser extention. But the best solution will be if Zerodha gives a good desktop app.
It is frustrating to see no broker is giving a good desktop app for “trading”.
Just putting this out there. Whenever Zerodha does decide to make a full-fledged desktop app in the future, do have a look at the desktop software of a foreign broker called Webull. Found it to be the right mix of aesthetics and functionalities. Even with very high information density, it doesn’t overwhelm (maybe due to its color scheme)
