From the team:

Hi everyone,

As a result of your valuable feedback, we’ve been working on making Proton Mail and Calendar easier to use on your desktop.

Today, we reached a significant milestone - the Proton Mail and Calendar desktop apps for Windows and macOS are now available in beta for all supporters on paid Proton plans. We’re also working on the Linux app and will release it soon for testing.

Thanks to your initial feedback, we’ve added new features and bug fixes, including:

  • 🗓 Easier access to Calendar via the app switcher on macOS

  • 🚨 Notification badge for unread messages

  • 🔤 Improved accessibility and font support

  • ⏩ Easy Switch and Gmail sync can now be set up from within the app, allowing you to easily sync emails, contacts, and calendars from non-Proton accounts

  • 💜 The option to set Proton Mail as your default email client on macOS

Download links and more info here: https://proton.me/support/mail-desktop-app

Let us know what you think; we look forward to your feedback!

Stay safe,

The Proton Team

  • Yer MaEnglish
    10•11 months ago

    Give us a Linux client for mail and pass please, please… pretty please

    (Or a connector that works better/installs better)

    • @NelizeaMEnglish
      5•11 months ago

      Quote straight out of the linked blog:

      The Proton Mail desktop app is currently available for macOS and Windows. We’re working on a Linux version that will be available in early access in the coming weeks.

    • LunchEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      They stated in their previous AUA that they’re lacking Linux Developers, even have positions open for applicants. So they said all Linux releases will be quite a bit behind Windows and Mac releases.

      • Yer MaEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        Lol thanks, I know, I’m just tooting into the wind

        • LunchEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          Tooting with ya… personally looking to switch to other solutions purely because of this.

          • setVeryLoud(true);English
            1•11 months ago

            I actually tried applying, EU and UK only, with some positions in Asia. US / Canada need not apply.

          • LunchEnglish
            1•11 months ago

            They recently had a AUA over at Reddit, they stated they they were lacking Linux Developers hence the delay of Linux releases across the board. So can’t judge them to harshly for it either, but personally not gonna wait around for it.

            Don’t know anything about who they hire though.

            • 🔗 David Sommerseth
              3•11 months ago

              @LunchEnjoyer

              @protonmail could start by actually attending various open source conferences. There are several of them only in Europe. #FOSDEM is the largest one (actually happening this weekend), @devconf_cz is another one, with lots of #Linux distribution focus as well.

              Sending HR folks and developers to these conferences, having a stand somewhere, meeting people is a solid way to find new hires with a specific skill set.

              • LunchEnglish
                2•11 months ago

                Great point! They totally should, and I would assume they have the recourses for it too.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•11 months ago

    Are there plans to include Pass in the same app? People have been begging for a standalone Pass app for a while. It makes sense to just add functionality to this one.

    • @alex_herreroOPMEnglish
      5•11 months ago

      Would be nice, right? Thanks for your feedback, I’ll pass along!

      Edited: thinking it further, it could be a different app, not all pass users use mail.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•11 months ago

        Yeah, I mean, whatever makes sense. I don’t know if there’s some overhead that would need to be duplicated making it easier to build off what they already have or if it makes more sense to break out each product. It’s be cool for somone like me who uses all of their products, to only have one Proton app. Might as well bundle VPN into it too.

      • @WhatAmLemmyEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        Ideally every service would be both a standalone app, as well as a service within an “ultimate suite” app, which is just a wrapper that contains all of the separate apps for ultimate users, plus a dashboard / service switcher.

    • @NelizeaMEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      The team is working on a Pass app.

  • Amju WolfEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    Isn’t this effectively just an Electron (or whatever) wrapper for the web app?

    • 🔗 David Sommerseth
      2•11 months ago

      @amju_wolf @alex_herrero

      Yupp, that’s my understanding as well.

      But Proton also insists on doing the packaging and distribution of it outside the ordinary distribution paths Linux distros uses (apt/yum/dnf repos or flatpak) … So they waste time and energy on getting stuff working properly across a broader range of Linux distributions.

      The end result will therefore most likely be a poorer user experience where some features don’t work well on some distros. Depending on how their “package” will manage to integrate on the distro installing it.

  • plz1English
    -2•11 months ago

    I still don’t understand why they can’t make this into a single app.