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Any news of the current state of the project? #4

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hanaral opened this issue Jul 22, 2020 · 10 comments
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Any news of the current state of the project? #4

hanaral opened this issue Jul 22, 2020 · 10 comments

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@hanaral
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hanaral commented Jul 22, 2020

Elementary OS 6 is right around the corner, and there has been a huge increase in the apps on the appcenter. As there are new, more professional grade apps like Akira on the way, I think that Aircraft would have similar success to Planner.
If funding is required I would not mind chipping in via GitHub Sponsors.

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Suzamax commented Oct 30, 2020

I have news!

First of all, sorry for being so absent from this project. Rather busy because University, some side-projects, personal life, and that feeling of being unable to make something good, but I hope that feeling will get the fuck off me soon 😄
Second: It would be GTK-agnostic. As I said in another issue, I want it to be more "general" and less elementary-based. Most people use GTK but less people use Pantheon than people using GNOME. I do currently use GNOME as my daily-driven desktop.
Third: I'm moving it from Vala to C++ (GTKMM), thus making it easier to use TdLib as it have native C++ libraries, and I feel quite comfortable using C++ rather than Vala. I'll upload ASAP the basis of the new Aircraft.
Also: if I feel this is going somewhere good I'll think about funding. But only if this get at least a MVP, not before. I don't like the idea of being a ripoff.

PS: I'm so bad at designing, if this works I'll try to make an Adwaita-like icon, but I suck with vectorization, coloring and the likes.

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hanaral commented Oct 30, 2020

Nice to hear! I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little disappointed that it isn't sticking to the appcenter, but then again it's obv your project. I hope to see more progress soon.
I could give making an icon, but it wouldn't be very Adwaita, since I think they aren't very portable and accessible (i.e try looking at the evince or EoG icon at 48px on a white backdrop).

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Suzamax commented Oct 30, 2020 via email

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stsdc commented Oct 30, 2020

If it is GTK, then it is native. Vala or C++ it doesn't matter.

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Tuxino88 commented Dec 9, 2020

I look forward to a first version with basic functions (voice and text messages).
deep hatred for Qt XD

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brneor commented Feb 5, 2021

I have news!

First of all, sorry for being so absent from this project. Rather busy because University, some side-projects, personal life, and that feeling of being unable to make something good, but I hope that feeling will get the fuck off me soon 😄
Second: It would be GTK-agnostic. As I said in another issue, I want it to be more "general" and less elementary-based. Most people use GTK but less people use Pantheon than people using GNOME. I do currently use GNOME as my daily-driven desktop.
Third: I'm moving it from Vala to C++ (GTKMM), thus making it easier to use TdLib as it have native C++ libraries, and I feel quite comfortable using C++ rather than Vala. I'll upload ASAP the basis of the new Aircraft.
Also: if I feel this is going somewhere good I'll think about funding. But only if this get at least a MVP, not before. I don't like the idea of being a ripoff.

PS: I'm so bad at designing, if this works I'll try to make an Adwaita-like icon, but I suck with vectorization, coloring and the likes.

I appreciate your work and I really liked the idea. Official Telegram client has been a pita for me in the past months. I'm not fluent in C++ but I have some free time and I'd love to help in some way.

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Tuxino88 commented Feb 7, 2021

I have news!
First of all, sorry for being so absent from this project. Rather busy because University, some side-projects, personal life, and that feeling of being unable to make something good, but I hope that feeling will get the fuck off me soon smile
Second: It would be GTK-agnostic. As I said in another issue, I want it to be more "general" and less elementary-based. Most people use GTK but less people use Pantheon than people using GNOME. I do currently use GNOME as my daily-driven desktop.
Third: I'm moving it from Vala to C++ (GTKMM), thus making it easier to use TdLib as it have native C++ libraries, and I feel quite comfortable using C++ rather than Vala. I'll upload ASAP the basis of the new Aircraft.
Also: if I feel this is going somewhere good I'll think about funding. But only if this get at least a MVP, not before. I don't like the idea of being a ripoff.
PS: I'm so bad at designing, if this works I'll try to make an Adwaita-like icon, but I suck with vectorization, coloring and the likes.

I appreciate your work and I really liked the idea. Official Telegram client has been a pita for me in the past months. I'm not fluent in C++ but I have some free time and I'd love to help in some way.

I think the project has been abandoned, if you want to fork it and make it minimally usable we will be happy :D

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Suzamax commented Feb 7, 2021 via email

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stsdc commented Feb 7, 2021

Well, life happens! Such project needs 2-3 people to maintain and develop and a lot of time to spend to make it at least to a basic MVP.
I do have a similar project , (@Suzamax you might recall 😅️), but written in Vala. (to see what Vala is capable of look at Akira project).

And I agree with @Suzamax, such project should not have any elementary specific dependencies to cover as much as possible of GTK-based DE. Although it can use elementary HIG, it will also look nice in Adwaita or Pop_OS.

In conclusion, C++ or Vala - it doesn't matter as long as such an application will integrate into Gnome and Pantheon environment, will use native freedesktop features etc.

@Tuxino88
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I have news!
First of all, sorry for being so absent from this project. Rather busy because University, some side-projects, personal life, and that feeling of being unable to make something good, but I hope that feeling will get the fuck off me soon smile
Second: It would be GTK-agnostic. As I said in another issue, I want it to be more "general" and less elementary-based. Most people use GTK but less people use Pantheon than people using GNOME. I do currently use GNOME as my daily-driven desktop.
Third: I'm moving it from Vala to C++ (GTKMM), thus making it easier to use TdLib as it have native C++ libraries, and I feel quite comfortable using C++ rather than Vala. I'll upload ASAP the basis of the new Aircraft.
Also: if I feel this is going somewhere good I'll think about funding. But only if this get at least a MVP, not before. I don't like the idea of being a ripoff.
PS: I'm so bad at designing, if this works I'll try to make an Adwaita-like icon, but I suck with vectorization, coloring and the likes.

I appreciate your work and I really liked the idea. Official Telegram client has been a pita for me in the past months. I'm not fluent in C++ but I have some free time and I'd love to help in some way.

Look this

https://github.com/melix99/telegrand

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