lemmy-gtk / lemoa

Native Gtk client for Lemmy

lemoa

Native Gtk client for Lemmy (alpha state)

Current state

Under development, not yet ready for daily usage

Working:

• Selecting lemmy instance
• Listing trending posts
• Viewing a post and its comments
• Viewing profiles
• Viewing trending communities
• Searching communities
• Logging in with an account
• Writing posts or comments
• Viewing subscribed posts
• Following communities
• Voting for or against posts or comments
• Editing and deleting posts or comments
• Viewing the personal inbox (mentions, replies)

Not yet supported:

• Private messages

Build dependencies

• rust
• cargo
• libgtk-4-dev

Installation

cargo install --git https://github.com/lemmy-gtk/lemoa.git

You can then start the app via the terminal after adding cargo's bin directory to your PATH variable

lemoa

Development

Clone the repository and run

cargo run

Building with Docker

sudo docker build --no-cache . -t lemoa:latest
CONTAINER_ID=$(sudo docker create --name lemoa -t lemoa:latest)
sudo docker cp $(CONTAINER_ID):/root/lemoa/target/release/lemoa .

Once the build is done, there will be an executable lemoa binary file in your current directory, executing it starts Lemoa 🎉.

License

Lemoa is licensed under the GNU General Public License: You can use, study and share it as you want.