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Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by Corrado »

alex-e wrote: post #20
bakoo wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... and Mattermost, please? :)

Mattermost is the open source Slack alternative, right? I haven't considered these smaller projects yet, because there are a lot of them. Implementing new protocols takes time. There are still a lot of crucial features I need to implement, but after eul is out of beta, Mattermost support should be there.

I understand it's early in the project and you are still nailing things down, but please consider open sourcing your project. Not being able to support things like smaller protocols (Spark, MS Teams, etc.) and legacy platforms (IRC) go away when others have the ability to contribute. Don't get me wrong, nothing comes for free and managing contributors is often times very difficult. Regardless, I think it's worth it. Plus, being able to see the source and build it ourselves is very important for this type of security sensitive project.

Thank you for your effort and I'm looking forward to using Eul quite a bit in the future. :)

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by edp »

artworx wrote: post #30

Windows Defender detects it as Win32/Lineage password stealer :(

Even without defender activated, the fact that the binary is not signed is triggering windows 10 security. Not an issue for me but you might want to sign the binary to avoid this.

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by jbg_ »

mrmondo wrote: post #25

Hey - I wanted to give you a BIG thank you for creating a native / non-JavaScript client for this, JavaScript (no matter the framework) has been the death of me and my peers with regards to desktop ‘apps’ for the last few years and it’s so damn good to see someone stop, think and give a $#!+ about performance. I’ll add that the last thing I (and I’ve heard my team say the same) want is another app that has to run in…

There is no mention of this supporting XMPP, but I use profanity for XMPP, and love it. The fact that it's a console application may or may not suit your tastes, of course.

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by [deleted] »

alex-e wrote: post #18
deckiedan wrote: post #13

Wow, awesome. Will you add IRC?

I was considering adding IRC but I thought that almost no one uses it these days (sadly!) Ideally yes, I'd like to implement it. It's a stable protocol that's not going to change, so there's not much cost in maintaining it. What are you using IRC for?

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Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by saagarjha »

Looks really cool! Just a couple of questions:

1. Are you planning to release this as open source? I really want this to have a native Cocoa interface on macOS.

2. When you say Gmail, do you mean email or Hangouts?

3. Where are you getting these APIs from?

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by dyu- »

alex-e wrote: post #2

Hi, eul is a very lightweight and fast native desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, VK, FB, Jabber, Telegram, and Signal. Right now only the first four are supported, and the rest should be done by the end of August. Why did I create this? To solve two big problems I see with the current IM solutions: there are too many of them, and the clients are ridiculously bloated for what they are built to do. For example, ev…

Hopefully you'll make your gui mini-framework opensource.

Though I would think it would be similar to something like https://github.com/ocornut/imgui

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by deckiedan »

alex-e wrote: post #18
deckiedan wrote: post #13

Wow, awesome. Will you add IRC?

I was considering adding IRC but I thought that almost no one uses it these days (sadly!) Ideally yes, I'd like to implement it. It's a stable protocol that's not going to change, so there's not much cost in maintaining it. What are you using IRC for?

#blender and related, the freenode community is still very active for real time support for many projects. I think IRC still could have a great place in the world - decentralised, open, etc. The ui is just very expectant that you already know and understand the ecosystem.

Needing to know user /auth stuff happens by sending private messages to bots, and other insane hacks.

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by RaleyField »

This is pretty stupid. Dev machines come with at least 8 gb or ram, why would anyone run a closed source software to save a hundred megabytes and risk compromising their machine. Meanwhile the account is 1 day old and the exe is being flagged by antiviruses.

Re: Show HN: Eul – a lightweight desktop client for Skype, Slack, Gmail, and more

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Post by hexmiles »

alex-e wrote: post #19
samueldavid wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What did you use to make the GUI using Go?

I'm drawing it with OpenGL :)

cool!

i wanted to do something like that, di you use something like nanovg o is from scratch?

have you considered doing a small tutorial/blog series, to explain how to do somethign similar or can you raccomend a resource to learning?

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