183 lines
4.8 KiB
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183 lines
4.8 KiB
Markdown
nheko
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[](https://travis-ci.org/mujx/nheko)
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[](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/mujx/nheko/branch/master)
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[](https://github.com/mujx/nheko/releases)
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[](https://matrix.to/#/#nheko:matrix.org)
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[](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nheko)
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The motivation behind the project is to provide a native desktop app for [Matrix] that
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feels more like a mainstream chat app ([Riot], Telegram etc) and less like an IRC client.
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## Features
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Most of the features you would expect from a chat application are missing right now
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but we are getting close to a more feature complete client.
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Specifically there is support for:
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- User registration.
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- Creating, joining & leaving rooms.
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- Sending & receiving invites.
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- Sending & receiving files and emoji (inline widgets for images, audio and file messages).
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- Typing notifications.
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- Username auto-completion.
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- Message & mention notifications.
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- Redacting messages.
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- Read receipts.
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- Basic communities support.
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- Room switcher (ctrl-K).
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- Light, Dark & System themes.
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## Installation
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### Nightly releases
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- Linux [AppImage](https://github.com/mujx/nheko/releases/download/nightly/nheko-x86_64.AppImage)
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- Windows [x64 installer](https://github.com/mujx/nheko/releases/download/nightly/nheko-installer.exe)
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- macOS [disk image](https://github.com/mujx/nheko/releases/download/nightly/nheko.dmg)
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### Repositories
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#### Arch Linux
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```bash
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pacaur -S nheko-git
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# or
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pacaur -S nheko
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```
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#### Fedora
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```bash
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sudo dnf install nheko
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```
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#### Gentoo Linux
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```bash
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sudo layman -a matrix
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sudo emerge -a nheko
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```
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#### Alpine Linux (and postmarketOS)
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Make sure you have the testing repositories from `edge` enabled. Note that this is not needed on postmarketOS.
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```sh
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sudo apk add nheko
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```
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### Build Requirements
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- Qt5 (5.7 or greater). Qt 5.7 adds support for color font rendering with
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Freetype, which is essential to properly support emoji.
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- CMake 3.1 or greater.
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- [LMDB](https://symas.com/lightning-memory-mapped-database/).
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- A compiler that supports C++ 14:
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- Clang 5 (tested on Travis CI)
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- GCC 7 (tested on Travis CI)
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- MSVC 19.13 (tested on AppVeyor)
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#### Linux
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If you don't want to install any external dependencies, you can generate an AppImage locally using docker.
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```bash
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make docker-app-image
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```
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If you're on Debian you should use `make docker-debian-appimage` instead, which uses
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Debian as the build host in an attempt to work around this [issue](https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/Desktop-Linux-Platform-Issues#openssl).
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##### Arch Linux
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```bash
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sudo pacman -S qt5-base qt5-tools qt5-multimedia qt5-svg cmake gcc fontconfig lmdb
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```
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##### Gentoo Linux
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```bash
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sudo emerge -a ">=dev-qt/qtgui-5.7.1" media-libs/fontconfig
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```
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##### Ubuntu (e.g 14.04)
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```bash
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:beineri/opt-qt592-trusty
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:george-edison55/cmake-3.x
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r-test
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install -y g++-7 qt59base qt59svg qt59tools qt59multimedia cmake liblmdb-dev
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```
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##### macOS (Xcode 8 or later)
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```bash
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brew update
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brew install qt5 lmdb cmake llvm
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```
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### Building
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Clone the repo and run
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```bash
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make release
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```
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which invokes cmake and translates to
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```bash
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cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
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cmake --build build
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```
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If the build fails with the following error
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```
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Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5Widgets" with
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any of the following names:
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Qt5WidgetsConfig.cmake
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qt5widgets-config.cmake
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```
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You might need to pass `-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` to cmake to point it at your qt5 install.
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e.g on macOS
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```
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cmake -H. -Bbuild -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$(brew --prefix qt5)
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cmake --build build
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```
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The `nheko` binary will be located in the `build` directory.
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#### Nix
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Download the repo as mentioned above and run
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```bash
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nix-build
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```
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in the project folder. This will output a binary to `result/bin/nheko`.
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You can also install nheko by running `nix-env -f . -i`
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### Contributing
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Any kind of contribution to the project is greatly appreciated. You are also
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encouraged to open feature request issues.
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### Screens
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Here is a screen shot to get a feel for the UI, but things will probably change.
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### Third party
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- [Emoji One](http://emojione.com)
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- [Font Awesome](http://fontawesome.io/)
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- [Open Sans](https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans)
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[Matrix]:https://matrix.org
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[Riot]:https://riot.im
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