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This is mostly a stylistic rework of the chatbar but there are some buxfixes / improvements in here as well. The aim was to make the chatbar so it's size was managed in the same manner as the timeline in both bubble and compactmode in the same manner as network/neochat!476. The other features are: - Replies, attachments and edits now look like they are inside the chatbar and use a similar styling to edits in message bubbles - Replies and edits now part of the message so they arte part of the ScrollView and will scroll away when the text is long - ~~The emoji picker is now a popup so it doesn't mess with the timeline layout when activated~~ (done in network/neochat!697) - ~~Emoji dialog is now no longer required as the picker itself is a popup now~~ (no longer the case see above) - The scrollbar now sits on the right of the chatbar actions rather than weirdly to the left - The action icons will always stay in the same place even as the chatbar gets taller Updated\  Scrollbar behaviour before  Scrollbar behaviour after 
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
A stable release is available for download for Linux distributions.
Along with the stable release, 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 nightly build is also available for Android in the KDE nightly F-Droid repo and can also directly be downloaded from the binary factory.
Nightly builds for Windows, MacOS and AppImages can also 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.