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

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This looks great - the Slack app is a massive PITA because it's so slow. The only thing stopping me junking Franz for this is that Franz has whatsapp (which you probably can't integrate into Eul anyway because it has to be the web client).

WhatsApp is very tricky, but not impossible.

I thought it had to be via WhatsApp web, no?

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

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WhatsApp is very tricky, but not impossible.

I thought it had to be via WhatsApp web, no?

Well there is https://github.com/tgalal/yowsup/

but i would not recommend using it

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

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I find this interesting, as I've been toying with similar ideas in head. In particular the messenger / facebook side of things is of great value to me. However implementing and more importantly maintaining support for this protocol seems like something which will require a vast amount of time and work. Could you briefly describe the status of this support and what hurdles there are to overcome. Messenger used to be XMPP right, I remember and miss the time when you could use pidgin to access this particular service!

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

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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?

From scratch, I was inspired by gxui. It's very basic right now (you can't even move a cursor with the mouse). I will definitely write a couple of posts about this!

amazing, i always wondered why people don't create more GUI stuff with Go, the performance of Go is pretty nice and a lot of good multi platform desktop apps could be build using it, keep up the good work!

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

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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?

No, OP said:

> I'm obsessed with performance. The entire application is about 4 MB, and it's never going to be more than 10 MB. In fact there are still many things to optimize. It's native, so you don't need to download a 100 MB browser just to use your IM client.

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

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My coworkers and I have been looking for something exactly like this, and we've been let down by numerous Electron projects like Franz that don't really offer any different, simplifying experience. I will definitely be trying this out. However a question essential for our pending use is: any plans to support HipChat? That would pretty near seal the deal for my current group.

Hi, Eul's target audience is primarily professionals, so it's silly of me to forget about HipChat. I just had a look at its API, and yes, it will absolutely be supported. In fact, most likely this is going to be the next protocol implemented. Should be done by mid-August.

Hi again! That's great news. I passed the app around to my coworkers already, however we can't actually use it!

If it's at all possible, we'd love to have a build compatible back to macOS 10.10. Right now, it can only run on 10.12 and we work in a large enterprise where updates are withheld for mostly software-compatibility reasons (a lot of media software relies on older systems).

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

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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.

Somehow I missed the mention of Jabber, but I think I was only looking at the list of protocols that are already supported.
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