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At first I noticed it wasn't working like it should, then realised it was using APIs that are largely unadvised. Also I saw there's some kind of system to render numbers in there but this is also something we generally do not do. There's better ways to display such information (e.g. using the com.canonical.Unity interface), so I wouldn't bother having ad-hoc code in there. And if we need to have it, we better have it in KNotifications. It now will also use the icon from the theme.
Neochat
Neochat is a client for Matrix, the decentralized communication protocol for instant messaging. It is a fork of Spectral, using KDE frameworks, most notably Kirigami, KConfig and KI18n.
Get it
There is no stable release for now, but a Flatpak version is available for the nightly version:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists kdeapps --from https://distribute.kde.org/kdeapps.flatpakrepo
flatpak install kdeapps org.kde.neochat
A nigthly build is also available for Android in the KDE nightly F-Droid repo and can also directly be downloaded from the binary factory.
Features
- Sending messages
- Sending files from clipboard and filesystem
- Reply to message (right-click on a message to access menu)
- Start a private chat (but not encrypted)
- Show notifications, for the moment there is only a global switch to disable it. We plan to implement the configuration part of the specification soon.
- Autocompletion of usernames in chat
- Emoji picker
- Basic room setting page
- Send and accept invitations
- /rainbow (very important)
- /me
NeoChat is still missing a few features to become a full-featured Matrix client (most notably encryption support and video chat support). We welcome contributions in this direction.
Contact
You can reach the maintainers at #neochat:kde.org, if you are already on Matrix. Development happens in http://invent.kde.org/network/neochat (not in GitHub).
Acknowledgement
This program utilizes libQuotient library and some C++ models from Quaternion.
This program is a fork of Spectral.
License
This program is licensed under GNU General Public License, Version 3.