talk-electron

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

Sources are mess but it works =)

Planning to use some things from this project as PRs to the official Nextcloud Talk Desktop app.

Minimum OS requirements

MacOS 10.15 Catalina, Windows 7/2008, Linux with modern kernel version (5.x)

Works with Nextcloud since v.28.x.x and since Talk v.18.x

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 )
• app_icon_name - default application icon path name to use in GUI (dock, taskbar and so on, default is icon.png)
• notification_icon_name - notification icon path name to use in app (default is notification.png)
• start_hidden - boolean true\false value means to hide app in tray on startup (default is false)
• 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)

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

For Linux:

apt install libxss-dev pkg-config

Platform independent steps:

git clone https://github.com/drlight17/talk-electron
cd ./talk-electron
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.

For more details see package.json