This is DeltaChat desktop client but not with the default Electron. Compile instructions for Debian, Arch Linux and openSUSE. One Linux distribution has this packaged : NixOS, package name kdeltachat-unstable. The software developer is also active in the DeltaChat forum. Posting this here to give this project some more attention cause it would be nice to see less Electron and more Kirigami (or Tauri ?).
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Are there any screenshots? Didn’t find any in the link nor Google.
I’ve compiled kdeltachat yesterday and it is different from the default Electron based Deltachat desktop app. At startup it immediately shows a big configuration screen inviting the user to fill in email address, SMTP port and a lot more text fields. The default Deltachat app looks polished and much nicer for “normies”. Ignoring and closing that configuration part and it looks like a simple Qt app without much colors so I guess it the app is a work in progress. Maybe I’ll provide some screen shots later.
Show us screenshots instead of telling us how the client looks like!
I am not alone wanting to see screenshots of softwares before even installing them. If you refuse to provide screenshots because someone is not saying please, expect many will not try your DeltaChat client. Over and out.
https://delta.chat/assets/home/screenshots/desktop.png
The electron version. The qt version is still early in development i think.
Compile it yourself! File a bug report with the software developer! (I’m just the messenger of this post) I’ve shared the web link of the project for people who dislike having too many Electron based applications on their computer, like people using older hardware. You may be fine with the Electron based one, screen shots of that here : https://delta.chat/en/
I guess I’ll have to try and compile this on Ubuntu because I’m curious what this looks like (and the project doesn’t appear to have any screenshots). Deltachat always had a relatively nifty UI so I wonder what difference going native makes in terms of look and feel.
In my experience, KDE applications look a tad wonky on Gnome, so it’ll be interesting to see how well this’ll integrate compared to the Electron version.
