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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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edp wrote: post #32
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.

Yes, that's a very important point. I'll update the website to notify the user about the unsigned binary issue.

I can't sign them at this point, but I will apply as soon as possible.

Right now macOS and Windows 10 complain about an unreliable executable (as they should).

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

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Post by alex-e »

jbg_ wrote: post #33
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.

There is! Jabber == XMPP :) It will be supported very soon.

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

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Post by alex-e »

TheWiseOne wrote: post #22

Is this just for IM (as in messages only) or does it also support audio/video calls (at least for Skype)?

Unfortunately right now it's IM only. I'm almost certain it's not possible to implement Skype audio calls, but I'll look into that.

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

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Post by ge0rg »

ptman wrote: post #44
Veratyr wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Three things: - THANK YOU! It's near impossible to find a client that isn't either run in a console (admittedly not the worst problem) or horribly bloated (what the hell are people thinking when the bundle a browser to show a single page!?). - What do you think of adding Matrix ( https://matrix.org )? The protocol is HTTP + JSON based and well documented. - Have you thought about open sourcing? My guess is either you…

I have to agree about matrix. In fact I think at this point effort should be focused on bridging protocols to matrix instead of each different client implementing support for protocols by themselves. Then the client can only implement matrix support.

Protocol bridges always only provide a subset of the original functionality, mostly because it's impossible to fully map one protocol to another.

Of course, the same problem can happen for a multi protocol client as well, but at least it's not inherently impossible to solve it there.

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

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Post by alex-e »

RaleyField wrote: post #45
saagarjha wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because some people want to do more than keep a couple chat windows open at once? Anyways, which antivirus is flagging this?

Someone is this thread mentioned windows defender and I checked with virustotal where there are some others as well. These might all be false positives, even then it still seems wrong to run a random executable from some anon from the internet.

It absolutely is!

I'm going to work on signing the executables for all platforms.

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

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Post by alex-e »

dawnerd wrote: post #41
RaleyField wrote: post #39

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.

With you here. I don't really care how much ram something uses as long as it's fast. Biggest problem I have are all these "native" apps just being electron wrappers. I miss the old days of real chat apps. Unfortunately they've all gone to hell - looking at you trillian.

I think RAM usage is important. My machine only has 8 GB of RAM, and I had to quit Telegram (1.1 GB) and Skype (550 MB) every time I launched a virtual machine to compile eul for other platforms :)

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

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Post by lurker- »

RaleyField wrote: post #39

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.

What a ridiculous comment.. I can assure you that the majority of the developers do not own a 8GB dev machine, and surely you can see why this application would be valuable for the average user chatting with their friends on Skype/whatever on their 2GB, i3 laptop (assuming they're lucky enough to be able to afford such a device).

I have browsed Show HN every day for over a year now, and I can't think of any project that made me as excited as this (although https://github.com/google/xi-editor and https://github.com/limetext come close). I bet that almost every Go developer on HN would love to read, study and learn from his code, so how about we ask him nicely instead of attempting to attack his credibility in hope of pressuring him into releasing his source code..

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