talk-electron

Electron wrapper app for Nextcloud Talk. Learning some nodejs and electron basics while building Nextcloud Talk Desktop app for easy enterprise deployment.

Sources are mess but it works =)

Check my app if you are unsatisfied by official Nextcloud Talk Desktop app.

Minimum OS requirements

MacOS 10.15 Catalina, Windows 7/2008, Linux with modern kernel version (5.x) - all x64 compatible only, no more 32-bit support (since 0.5.1-alpha)

Works correctly with Nextcloud since v.28.x.x till v.31.x.x and since Talk v.18.x till v.21.x.x

📦 Download

Platform	Type	Download link
🖥 Windows x64	.msi	Download
🐧 Debian/Ubuntu Linux x64	.deb	Download
🐧 RHEL/Fedora Linux x64	.rpm	Download
🐧 Linux AppImage x64	.AppImage	Download
🌐 Linux Archive x64	.tar.gz	Download
🌐 Windows Archive x64	.zip	Download
🍎 macOS DMG x64	.dmg	Download
🍎 macOS DMG arm64	.dmg	Download

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📂 How to install?

1. Choose your platform distrib.
2. Click download.
3. Follow installation.

Supported settings

All app settings are saved in the local user folder in file config.json:

• MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/NC Talk Electron
• Windows 7 and newer: %AppData%\NC Talk Electron
• Linux ~/.config/NC Talk Electron

Supported setting arguments (see example.config.json):

• server_url - Nextcloud Server URL with installed Talk application (it is also supported as app CLI argument, use it as
  --server_url=http:\\nextcloud.address.com )
• start_hidden - boolean true\false value means to hide app in tray on startup (default is false)
• app_icon_name - default application icon path name to use in GUI (dock, taskbar and so on, default is icon.png)
• show_on_notify - true\false value means to show app main window on every notification (default is false) (deprecated since v.0.2.5-alpha, check show_on_new_message instead boolean)
• show_on_new_message - true\false value means to show app main window on every new message received (default is false)
• use_server_icon - boolean true\false value means to use Nextcloud Server logo icon in GUI (dock, taskbar and so on, default is false
• run_at_startup - boolean true\false value means to start on system user logon (default is false)
• locale - locale country code of app language (default is en)
• allow_domain - comma-separated string with the list of SSO allowed domains, * wildcard supported (use "*" only for all domains, but it maybe insecure)
• always_on_top - true\false value means to show app main window on top of every other windows (default is false)
• auto_login - true\false value means to try auto login (make sure you have configured allow_domain and SSO in NC)
• logging - boolean true\false value means to save application logs to the file app.log in local user folder (nearby config.json)
• theme - application theme (dark, light, auto; default is auto)
• notification_timeout - time period of notification show (in seconds, 0 - means to wait of user action) (deprecated since v.0.6.0, check notification_timeout_checkbox instead boolean)
• notification_timeout_checkbox - true\false value means to allow notifications in app (default is true)
• notification_sys_checkbox - true\false value means to use system based notification instead of app internal (default is false)
• notification_position - bottom-right\bottom-left\top-right\top-left value means the position of app internal nitifications (default is bottom-right)
• notification_muted - true\false value means to mute all sounds from notifications and calls in app (default is false)
• sum_unread - true\false value means to sum unread message counters from all configured accounts and show this sum on the app tray icon only; corresponding account unread counter will remain at taskbar and macos dock icon (availlable since v.1.0.0-RC1)
• use_server_theme - true\false value means to get main theme color from the NC server and use it to customize background color of the app notification (availlable since v.1.0.0-RC1)

For developers

Build depends on the platform since 0.2.9-alpha version as it brings support of the system idle detect function.

For Windows:

choco install python312 visualstudio2019community visualstudio2019-workload-nativedesktop visualstudio2019buildtools windows-sdk-10.0
pip install setuptools
git clone https://github.com/drlight17/talk-electron
cd ./talk-electron
cp ./package.json.windows ./package.json

For Linux:

apt install libxss-dev pkg-config
git clone https://github.com/drlight17/talk-electron
cd ./talk-electron
cp ./package.json.linux ./package.json

For Macos:

git clone https://github.com/drlight17/talk-electron
cd ./talk-electron
cp ./package.json.windows ./package.json

Platform independent steps:

npm install -g node-gyp
npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
npx electron-rebuild

To build win32 x86 (32bit) app remove node_modules\sharp\ after previous common commands, use package.json.win32-ia32 as package.json and run:

npm install --force --platform=win32 --arch=ia32 sharp

To run dev app use:

npm start 

In dev mode config path includes '-dev'

To build distributive use:

npm run dist

If there are any module errors try to npx electron-rebuild before every npm start or npm run dist.

Also check package.json.linux and package.json.windows. Pay attention: package.json.windows should be used for macos development and build.