brittosaji19 / tdesktop-dark

Telegram Desktop messaging app with a dark theme

Telegram Desktop – Fork of Official Messenger including a dark theme

This is the complete source code and the build instructions for the alpha version of the official desktop client for the Telegram messenger, based on the Telegram API and the MTProto secure protocol.

The source code is published under GPLv3 with OpenSSL exception, the license is available here.

Dark theme

This fork of Telegram Desktop has a dark theme

Co-development and messing-around with JuanPotato and Melvin V. Melvin V. has his own fork of telegram with seperate patches link to his Gitlab

Windows: Binary download can be found under releases

Custom build changelog

2016-11-10

• Darker theme
• Messages from the same author are now grouped together
• Everything is now square instead of bubbles
• Based on Telegram v 0.10.19

Supported systems

• Windows XP - Windows 10 (not RT)
• Mac OS X 10.8 - Mac OS X 10.11
• Mac OS X 10.6 - Mac OS X 10.7 (separate build)
• Ubuntu 12.04 - Ubuntu 16.04
• Fedora 22 - Fedora 24

Third-party

• Qt 5.3.2 and 5.6.2, slightly patched (LGPL)
• OpenSSL 1.0.1g (OpenSSL License)
• zlib 1.2.8 (zlib License)
• libexif 0.6.20 (LGPL)
• LZMA SDK 9.20 (public domain)
• liblzma (public domain)
• Google Breakpad (License)
• Google Crashpad (Apache License 2.0)
• GYP (BSD license)
• Ninja (Apache License 2.0)
• OpenAL Soft (LGPL)
• Opus codec (BSD license)
• FFmpeg (LGPL)
• Open Sans font (Apache License 2.0)

Build instructions

• Visual Studio 2015
• Xcode 8
• GYP/CMake on GNU/Linux

Projects in Telegram solution

• Telegram

  Telegram Desktop messenger

• Updater

  A little app, that is launched by Telegram when update is ready, replaces all files and launches it back.

• Packer

  Compiles given files to single update file, compresses it with lzma and signs with a private key. It is not built in Debug and Release configurations of Telegram solution, because private key is inaccessible.

• MetaEmoji

  Creates four sprites and text2emoji replace code

  • SourceFiles/art/emoji.png
  • SourceFiles/art/emoji_125x.png
  • SourceFiles/art/emoji_150x.png
  • SourceFiles/art/emoji_200x.png
  • SourceFiles/art/emoji_250x.png
  • SourceFiles/ui/emoji_config.cpp

• codegen_style

• codegen_numbers

  Helper code generating console utilities.

• MetaLang

  Creates from languagepack file Resources/lang.strings language constants code and language file parse code:

  • GeneratedFiles/lang.h
  • GeneratedFiles/lang.cpp