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Hello everyone, I recently started working on a Gtk client for Lemmy written in Rust, called Lemoa and the awesome Relm4 crate.

So far, it supports most of the basic things that do not require a login, like viewing trending posts, browsing communities, viewing profiles, etc… Login features are planned to become added within the next one or two weeks, so that Lemoa can be used as a replacement for the web UI on a desktop.

Screenshot of an example community page:

Id you want to feel free to already try it at “alpha stage” (installation instructions are in the Readme).

Feedback and any kind of contributions welcome!

PS: I’m sorry if that’s the wrong place to post about it, I didn’t know where else to.

  • 𝕊𝕚𝕤𝕪𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕟English
    41•2 years ago

    I’m sure it’s a nice client but I don’t understand why so many GUI projects have no screenshots in their READMEs. It would be great if I could immediately see if I like it without installing it.

    EDIT: thanks for adding the screenshot to your post! It looks awesome!

    • BnyroOPEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      Yes, I totally agree with you! I didn’t yet add screenshots to the README since some parts of the app are still matter to be changed in the near future. The development started actually just four days ago, so there’s still room for UI improvements. I’ll make sure to add screenshots to the README once it’s more mature.

      • @Lorenz_These_CurvesEnglish
        7•2 years ago

        Hi there! First off–this looks awesome! Thanks for making it! Do you need any help with anything? I’m not a slouch at Rust and would love to see a desktop client for Lemmy that everyone can use! Is there anything you need help with testing? Dev? Docs?

        • BnyroOPEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          Hey, thanks for your interest! What’s probably needed the most currently is someone spending some time to get all the things that require authentication done, but of course other things like adding screenshots to the README, adding CI via GitHub actions, etc would be useful too! :)

      • @[email protected]English
        5•2 years ago

        Why not just add them now? It’s not hard to update with new screenshots upon new changes.

        • BnyroOPEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          I don’t mind if someone creates a PR with some screenshots, however I would rather wait one or two weeks so that there’s no need to create a newscreenshots when a new feature is added.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•2 years ago

      I completely agree. It’s the bare minimum to include screenshots if you want people to be interested. If the barrier to see if I even like the look of the app is cloning and building the project then I’ll probably just move on to an alternative.

      • BnyroOPEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        As already stated out, the project is still in alpha. Apart from that, there is a screenshot in the post …

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 years ago

          Apologies, I was just agreeing with the commenter above, I didn’t mean to bring negativity to your project. My comment was more just an excuse to comment on Lemmy to get some engagement on the platform.

          • BnyroOPEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            Oh well, looks like I just misunderstood you then. No worries!

    • BnyroOPEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Please keep in mind it’s still at a very early stage, so if things sometimes don’t work out perfectly yet, that’s matter to change in the future :)

    • BnyroOP
      1•2 years ago

      Yes, likely. I have never published an app there before so it’ll be kinda interesting to get it working, but I guess that’ll be fine (I’ll probably try it in two weeks or so). I’ll also try to add it to Void Linux’s repos once it’s stable, hope we’ll get accepted there too

    • BnyroOPEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Yes, that’s also the reason why the app uses gtk4 without libadwaita, I want to be able to use Catppuccin on it :)

      • @bennetiEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Which part of catppuccin does not work for you with libadwaita, by symlinking the gtk-4 config file from the theme libadwaita apps are themed for me.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•2 years ago

        For me cattpuccin also works with libadwaita apps if you symlink the config in gtk-4.0 folder of the theme to .config/gtk-4.0 or is it something more than the colors you are missing for libadwaita apps? 🙈

        • BnyroOPEnglish
          1•2 years ago

          Hmm, I’ve symlinked the gtk-4.0 folder to catppuccin, but some apps like Nautilus don’t seem to get themed (not even sure if it uses libadwaita though). Some others do work.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•2 years ago

            Hmm thats strange, nautilus is definitely themed for me, apart from symlinking and setting the general gtk theme, I think the only thing that I did in addition is setting the following in settings.ini

            [Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true
gtk-icon-theme-name=Papirus-Dark
gtk-theme-name=Catppuccin-Macchiato-Compact-Mauve-Dark
  • @[email protected]English
    4•2 years ago

    looks awesome! awkward question but other people may run into this problem too:

    The apt versions of libgtk-4-dev seem to be too old to build lemoa and I can’t find an obvious flatpak alternative, any tips?

    I’m on pop_os 22.04 LTS; cargo install error with apt’s libgtk-4-dev installed: Requested ‘glib-2.0 >= 2.74’ but version of GLib is 2.72.4