Client application for the Mastodon open source decentralized social network
Knowledge Requirements: Linux, Qt, QML, Plasma
System Requirements: You can develop this application on normal Linux system, and test it in native Linux system. If you want to test it on Plasma Mobile system, you can use actual Mobile device or Plasma Mobile x86 ISO in emulated environment.
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There is already work in multiples Qml/Qt Mastodon appliations:
Maybe instead of writing a new application from scratch, we should try to either convert one of this application to the KDE HIG and Kirigami or create a seperate Kirigami frontend.
I'm open to working on a Kirigami front-end. I leveraged Rust because there's an existing library for Mastodon interoperability.
Also not opposed to a Kirigami front-end and happy to provide help here. I'm not sure the Go backend is well-suited for the entire KDE infrastructure, though.
Neither is Rust, we're still using it in some applications though, so that should not be a problem i guess?
At least Ikona also uses Kirigami and Rust, so that's probably a more convenient pairing than Go.
Yeah, from my experience working with Rust, wrapping C++ libraries in it isn't too foreign for C++ developers. I was planning on remodelling the GUI logic and KDE bits for ActivityDesk using the same flow that Ikona had tbh.
This would also be a great chance to encourage (even more) language diversity within the KDE community 😄
On Tuesday, 17 March 2020 07:46:40 PDT cah fofpai wrote:
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There's also https://github.com/err4nt/blabber .TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.kde.org/T12814To: cahfofpai
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Ah, that's a decent example of KWallet code there.
https://github.com/err4nt/blabber/blob/master/kwalletinterface.cpp[1]
I might begin working on my rewrite to work with this (optimizing to use KDE
libraries in C++ as often as I can and do the rest of the core logic for Mastodon
communication in Rust).
I wrote https://invent.kde.org/network/tokodon. Still missing a few things: notifications views and some special events support but many features were implemented.