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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

#81

Post by danpalmer »

Initial thoughts:

- This is a native application, but does not use any native controls, so currently lacks text selection or navigation, tab to change input focus, or anything else you'd expect from a native application (apart from speed). One of the things that bothers me most about the Slack application is it's lack of interoperability with macOS, for example in drag and drop - this application does not appear to be targeting that interoperability either.

- Slack authentication doesn't appear to be working at the moment - it directs me to my browser to authenticate, but after doing that I'm left in the Slack web-app, not redirected back to the application.

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

#82

Post by alex-e »

danpalmer wrote: post #81

Initial thoughts: - This is a native application, but does not use any native controls, so currently lacks text selection or navigation, tab to change input focus, or anything else you'd expect from a native application (apart from speed). One of the things that bothers me most about the Slack application is it's lack of interoperability with macOS, for example in drag and drop - this application does not appear to b…

You are right. You can't even copy text right now. These little UI things will gradually be implemented very soon.

Are you a member of multiple Slack orgs?

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

#83

Post by alex-e »

i-j wrote: post #79

'Great job' or should one say thank you for the trojan? Trojan:Win32/Spursint.F!cl :(

Yeah, I know about this. The fix will be live soon. It's not a virus, nothing is being sent anywhere. It's just poor implementation from my part.

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

#84

Post by alex-e »

Sammi wrote: post #80
alex-e wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

There already exist tons of high quality irc clients, so there's no reason for irc support to be high priority. I see eul's reason to exist to be more to alleviate the weight of having several low quality messaging apps open at the same time.

You are right. On the other hand it would be nice to have all protocols supported in one app, so one day IRC support will definitely be there.

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

#85

Post by noloblo »

alex-e wrote: post #49
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…

Thanks! Matrix will definitely be implemented at some point. Not within the first 2 months unfortunately. Yes, my standards are pretty high, but like I said before here, I do consider open sourcing it.

Is eul an electron app?

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

#86

Post by noloblo »

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?

I use irc pls add

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

#88

Post by noloblo »

lurker- wrote: post #59
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 t…

are there mac binaries for xi and lime text editors

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

#90

Post by noloblo »

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…

added gmail and Skype just Skype shows up added slack too but nothing happens !!! theres an empty shared window whats that
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