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It's a different user base. Give us a github repo and we can build it ourself. Let me see if I can find one. Edit: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop
Moxie strictly disagrees with that, and has previously tried to shut down every third-party build of Signal, even in repos for distros or F-Droid. He only wants users to get Signal builds from himself, and no one else.
Yay...
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You still need a phone with a registered Signal on iOS or Android initially to activate the desktop version (sorry if that wasn't clear), but you can turn your phone off after. Edit: It actually has the option to register without smartphone, but it's only enabled in the debug versions.
About your edit: precious information, thanks!
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wow, sorry. my bad. So I guess there is a way to use signal without having a phone nowadays! That's a great news! I will try right now.
You still need a phone with a registered Signal on iOS or Android initially to activate the desktop version (sorry if that wasn't clear), but you can turn your phone off after. Edit: It actually has the option to register without smartphone, but it's only enabled in the debug versions.
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You still need a phone with a registered Signal on iOS or Android initially to activate the desktop version (sorry if that wasn't clear), but you can turn your phone off after. Edit: It actually has the option to register without smartphone, but it's only enabled in the debug versions.
Where can you get the debug version? I can't find it.
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I don't trust them, it's just that I can use them. The real problem is requiring a smartphone.
I don't get you. You chose a secure messaging platform that you don't trust?
Without having a smartphone, using Signal wasn't an option (at least previously).
Sadly, almost everything involves tradeoffs.
He (understandably) prefers to use a tool which doesn't require a phone, over one with a better security model.
"If you’ve never used Signal Desktop before, this is a great chance to start. Download the app, pair it with your phone, and experience private messaging with all ten fingers." So it is not _really_ standalone. You still need a phone. This is still a geeky version of WhatsApp. In fact, why would I want to use this instead of WhatsApp if they're basically using the same encryption features and I have to trust the same…
Another 205MB Electron App to the collection, at least it's 50MB smaller than Wire.
eul is a light (4 MB) native desktop client for all popular messengers: https://eul.im Signal support is coming later this year. Right now it supports Slack, Skype, Facebook, and Gmail.
window can't be resized, standard menus are missing, standard keyboard shortcuts for text fields don't work, conversion text can't be selected, no way to cut or copy text (tho paste does seem to work).
is it implementing its own ui toolkit? qt maybe?
Am I the only one who thinks this defeats the whole point?
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eul is a light (4 MB) native desktop client for all popular messengers: https://eul.im Signal support is coming later this year. Right now it supports Slack, Skype, Facebook, and Gmail.
native in that it's not a web-app, sure, but it sure doesn't feel like a native citizen on the mac. window can't be resized, standard menus are missing, standard keyboard shortcuts for text fields don't work, conversion text can't be selected, no way to cut or copy text (tho paste does seem to work). is it implementing its own ui toolkit? qt maybe?