GNUnet Messenger
A GTK based GUI for the Messenger service of GNUnet. Source
Description
Messenger-GTK is a convergent GTK messaging application using the GNUnet Messenger service. The goal is to provide private and secure communication between any group of devices.
The application provides the following features:
- Creating direct chats and group chats
- Managing your contacts and groups
- Invite contacts to a group
- Sending text messages
- Sending voice recordings
- Sharing files privately
- Deleting messages with any custom delay
- Renaming contacts
- Exchanging contact details physically
- Verifying contact identities
- Switching between different accounts
Chats will generally created as opt-in. So you can decide who may contact you directly and who does not, accepting to a direct chat. Leaving a chat is also always possible.
- https://git.gnunet.org/messenger-gtk.git/tree/README.md
- https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/rk5zyb/gnunet_messenger_for_mobile_linux/
- https://thejackimonster.blogspot.com/2022/02/gnunet-messenger-api-february.html
- https://thejackimonster.blogspot.com/2022/03/gnunet-messenger-api-march.html
- https://thejackimonster.blogspot.com/2022/09/gnunet-messenger-api-september.html
- https://thejackimonster.blogspot.com/2022/12/development-in-2022.html
- https://gitlab.com/gnunet-messenger/messenger-gtk/-/raw/master/screenshots/about-page.png
- https://gitlab.com/gnunet-messenger/messenger-gtk/-/raw/master/screenshots/account-selection.png
- https://gitlab.com/gnunet-messenger/messenger-gtk/-/raw/master/screenshots/chat.png
- https://gitlab.com/gnunet-messenger/messenger-gtk/-/raw/master/screenshots/contact-info.png
- https://gitlab.com/gnunet-messenger/messenger-gtk/-/raw/master/screenshots/delete-messages.png
- https://gitlab.com/gnunet-messenger/messenger-gtk/-/raw/master/screenshots/voice-recording.png
Rating
Mobile Fit: 5Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!
Project status: maturing
This project has been in development for some time and is somewhere around a 1.0 release. It should work mostly fine.
Features
✔ Every feature of this app can be accessed via touch screen, no mouse or keyboard needed.
Packaging
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Build and install your own Snap: https://git.gnunet.org/messenger-gtk.git/plain/snap/snapcraft.yaml
Please note that Snap only supports these distributions.
If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:
Install* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.
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By Service: GNUnet Messenger
By Category: chat
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Licensing and technical details
License: AGPL-3.0-only Metadata: CC0-1.0
Backend: libgnunetchat
Programming languages: C
Build system: meson
AppStream Metadata URL: https://git.gnunet.org/messenger-gtk.git/plain/resources/org.gnunet.Messenger.appdata.xml