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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by bnyro@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

Hello everyone, I recently started working on a Gtk client for Lemmy written in Rust, called Lemoa and the awesome Relm4 crate.

So far, it supports most of the basic things that do not require a login, like viewing trending posts, browsing communities, viewing profiles, etc... Login features are planned to become added within the next one or two weeks, so that Lemoa can be used as a replacement for the web UI on a desktop.

Screenshot of an example community page:

Id you want to feel free to already try it at "alpha stage" (installation instructions are in the Readme).

Feedback and any kind of contributions welcome!

PS: I'm sorry if that's the wrong place to post about it, I didn't know where else to.

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[-] sisyphean@programming.dev 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’m sure it’s a nice client but I don’t understand why so many GUI projects have no screenshots in their READMEs. It would be great if I could immediately see if I like it without installing it.

EDIT: thanks for adding the screenshot to your post! It looks awesome!

[-] bnyro@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Yes, I totally agree with you! I didn't yet add screenshots to the README since some parts of the app are still matter to be changed in the near future. The development started actually just four days ago, so there's still room for UI improvements. I'll make sure to add screenshots to the README once it's more mature.

[-] Lorenz_These_Curves@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago
[-] bnyro@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Hey, thanks for your interest! What's probably needed the most currently is someone spending some time to get all the things that require authentication done, but of course other things like adding screenshots to the README, adding CI via GitHub actions, etc would be useful too! :)

[-] Possible6388@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Why not just add them now? It’s not hard to update with new screenshots upon new changes.

[-] bnyro@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

I don't mind if someone creates a PR with some screenshots, however I would rather wait one or two weeks so that there's no need to create a newscreenshots when a new feature is added.

[-] InAmberClad@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I completely agree. It's the bare minimum to include screenshots if you want people to be interested. If the barrier to see if I even like the look of the app is cloning and building the project then I'll probably just move on to an alternative.

[-] bnyro@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago

As already stated out, the project is still in alpha. Apart from that, there is a screenshot in the post ...

[-] InAmberClad@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 years ago

Apologies, I was just agreeing with the commenter above, I didn't mean to bring negativity to your project. My comment was more just an excuse to comment on Lemmy to get some engagement on the platform.

[-] bnyro@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Oh well, looks like I just misunderstood you then. No worries!

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