de.schmidhuberj.Flare AGPL-3.0 FSFAP Flare An unofficial Signal GTK client de.schmidhuberj.Flare.desktop Julian Schmidhuber flare flatpak@schmiddi.anonaddy.com https://gitlab.com/Schmiddiii/flare https://gitlab.com/Schmiddiii/flare/-/issues https://matrix.to/#/#flare-signal:matrix.org

An unofficial GTK client for the messaging application Signal. This is a very simple application with many features missing compared to the official applications.

  • Link device
  • Send messages
  • Receive messages
  • Reply to a message
  • React to a message
  • Sending and receiving attachments
  • Encrypted storage

Please note that using this application will probably worsen your security compared to using official Signal applications. Use with care when handling sensitive data. Look at the projects README for more information about security.

Added

  • Ability to receive messages in the background.

Fixed

  • Fixed restarting the backend after suspend.
  • Fixed grammar error in the project description.

Fixed

  • Fixed application freeze when there are many initial messages
  • Fixed incorrect ordering of new messages

Fixed

  • Fixed memory leak.
  • Fixed displayed reply message not clearing attachments when changing reply.
  • Fixed crash when searching non-existing channel.

HOTFIX

  • Fix linking not working

Changed

  • Slight UI update to channel list

Fixed

  • Crash when clicking on call message
  • URLs containing "&" not being displayed
  • Fixed some (hopefully all) duplicate messages
  • Fixed receiving messages from certain groups

HOTFIX:

  • Updated certificate of Signal servers

Added:

  • Pasting files and images into the text entry.
  • Unlink without deleting messages.
  • Messages and notifications for calls.

Fixed:

  • Fixed showing messages with "&", "<" or ">".

Chores:

  • Refactored GTK properties.
  • Greatly refactored messages.

Added:

  • Clickable links in text messages.
  • Open image in default program.
  • Contributing guidelines

Changed:

  • Show backend thread panics.
  • UI improvements for the channel list.
  • Display user initials in profile pictures.

Fixed:

  • Fixed duplicate message receiving.
  • Wrapping for extremely long words.

Added:

  • Immediately sync contacts after linking, without application restart required.
  • Show UUID for unknown contacts (without name, phone numbers) instead of empty string.
  • Notification support.

Changed:

  • Many UI updates.
  • Use new libadwaita widgets (about dialog, message dialog, entry row).
  • New message storage backend.

Fixed:

  • Wrongly associated stored messages from other devices.
  • Possibly fixed libsecret-related issue.
  • (Upstream) Fixed duplicate messages to other third-party Signal clients.

BREAKING:

  • Due to changes in the storage backend, your previously stored messages will be lost.

Added:

  • Button in the link window to copy link URL to clipboard.
  • Group storage.
  • Search for the channel view.

Fixed:

  • Maybe fixed rare crash in the backend thread.
  • Fixed messages sent to contacts being wrongly stored to "Note to self".

Added:

  • Accessibility (no idea how good it is).
  • Message storage.
  • Prevented sending empty messages.
  • Display the time the message was sent.

Fixed:

  • Attachment list not hiding after sending message.
  • Minor glib warning.

Added:

  • Keyboard shortcuts.

Changed:

  • Small UI updates.
  • Moved from Entry to TextView which provides multi-line editing and line wrapping.

Fixed:

  • Fixed screenshot dummy.

Hotfix for crash without libsecret set up.

Fix gschema not being installed.

Implemented device name for linking, added support for video attachment, configurable lazy-load attachments, bug fixes.

Hotfix for not beeing able to link and unlink the device.

UI updates, more translations, bug fixing.

Added ability to upload and download attachments, added ability to remove reply and attachments before sending, fixed some bugs mainly regarding reply messages.

Fixed many bugs, including wrong association for messages to channels, wrongly displayed channel names as "Note to self" and a few crashes.

Fix message receiving, sending attachments.

Bug fixing, error handling, russian and german translation, small UI updates.

Small UI changes, change of license.

Initial Release.

Overview of the application https://gitlab.com/Schmiddiii/flare/-/raw/master/data/screenshots/screenshot.png de.schmidhuberj.Flare flare workstation mobile