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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://github.com/albert-tomanek/lemmy_desktop

This is my attempt at an oldschool, beefed-up desktop app for Lemmy for those of us who yearn for that kind of experience.
Currently it only does reading, if people use it I'll work on comment support too.

If you want to give it a spin, you can download the flatpak file from here and run it.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm only interested if it automatically appends **56K WARNING** to any post with a gallery.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

It doesn't, but for £100/hr I'll come to your house, stand behind you while you browse, and tell it at the top of my lungs whenever I see a gallery loading up.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ehh, close enough.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I could add a 56K simulator feature that makes the images load super slowly ;-)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

what does this mean?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

My sweet summer child

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Wow - this looks amazing! Gonna try it out ASAP.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Glad you like it :)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Had a quick play - great start!

I've tried going back into it and get a utf-8 error - is this common? I can't log back in.

Some thoughts if you do decide to keep working on it :) Could you add comments as another tab next to post and media. I can only see a way to look at subscribed communities. Can you add the local and all tabs too?

If you fancied adding all the mod and admin tools to it too, that would be amazing 😅

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nice! Yeah, logging in throws errors sometimes, idk why but some instances (.ml) do this almost always. Perhaps try removing the account?
I can try adding the comments as a tab. The reason I originally put them in a new window was because comments sections tend to be quite wide so I didn't think they would fit in the tall-but-narrow layout of the main window too well
Good call with the local and all tabs, I'll add those to the sidebar.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I actually really like the easy access subbed list

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

I haven’t even downloaded yet but just from the screenshot I love it and the idea. Also, what are you using for that Windows 7 look? I’m assuming it’s not actually Windows 7. I’m realizing I miss that and that was kind of peak computing to me, or at least the best Windows offered.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

it kinda looks like they’ve built it using windows forms which iirc defaults to a windows 7 design style when previewing it (i could be wrong tho)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I miss that and that was kind of peak computing to me

Yup, I feel exactly the same :D It's called AeroThemePlasma and I dig it so much

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

This is incredible!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It is! Now I've just gotta overcome my disgust of C++ in order to write apps for it... (this client is written in Vala, ie. C#)

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of GameRanger. We didnt know those were the halcyon days.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Cool project!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

From what I can see, its a flatpak.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

To be honest, I glossed over it as well until I read your comment.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Running this on Fedora, and when I try to log into my account I get the following error:

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_path_match: assertion 'root != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_array: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_array_get_length: assertion 'array != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_string: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_path_match: assertion 'root != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_array: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_array_get_length: assertion 'array != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): Json-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: json_node_get_string: assertion 'JSON_NODE_IS_VALID (node)' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: g_error_new_literal: assertion 'message != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: g_task_return_error: assertion 'error != NULL' failed

(lemmy_desktop:2): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 11:18:37.193: GTask 0x558c1e157780 (source object: (nil), source tag: (nil)) finalized without ever returning (using g_task_return_*()). This potentially indicates a bug in the program.
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Oh, yeah I got this too. It doesn't work with lemmy.ml because they don't provide API access for some reason (at least the API that this client uses)...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Aha! An answer. Thank you!

this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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