When I click on a link in a post nothing happens. Shouldn't Elk open a web page (either in Elk itself or in the default browser)?

This happens with both nightly23.1.16 and nightly23.1.13.

We should add some padding for macOS (macOS only I guess) for window controlling buttons.

I think we can publish to https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask

Do you intend to license this project with an open source license?

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          Maybe we could improve the filename of release files. Adding OS name like `darwin` or `macos` / `linux`

Originally posted by @sxzz in #2 (comment)

Elk-native is no longer maintained, as we do not have the bandwidth to give it the love it deserves.

Please use the actively maintained elk PWA instead.

When you start Elk.app it always starts with the same dimension and at the same position on Display 1.
It does not save the last postion or window size the user has set it to.

Tested with latest Elk-Native.

I installed the bin version of the software from aur.
Unfortunately, I cannot confirm my login in the software.
Redirection to URL with a scheme that is not HTTP(S)

I am currently using the Elk app on a larger screen and I have noticed that there is empty space on the left and right. To improve the user experience, I suggest the following changes:

• The menu should be attached to the left side of the screen
• The timeline should fill the rest of the screen, and the right panel should appear on wider screens

One way to implement these changes would be to add a new variant to the unocss for native, which would only be included in Tauri builds.

Hi all - thanks so much for this awesome client.

Trying to get this to run using cargo tauri dev, it's not loading anything - just stuck on the Nuxt slash screen:

Any tips? This is off of the head of main: 73fd12c.

Some system stats:

Software:

    System Software Overview:

      System Version: macOS 13.3 (22E252)
      Kernel Version: Darwin 22.4.0

❯ cargo --version
cargo 1.73.0 (9c4383fb5 2023-08-26)

Any help would be a big thanks - would love to help here as much as possible!! ❤️

For some context, I love the navigation sidebar at the left-side of the page.

However, if I collapse the window below this width, the sidebar (rightly) turns into footer navigation since it detects it's probably being viewed on a mobile device.

That makes perfect sense for responsive web development, but in the case of a desktop app I'd like to decrease the content width a little bit more but still keep the sidebar there.

Additionally, I'm not sure there's a use case for the footer-based navigation on the desktop app, since on a desktop there is plenty of horizontal screen real-estate for all those navigation items. At the very least, if people like the footer-based navigation, it could be some sort of setting (I'm skeptical anyone would use it, but everyone has their own preferences).

With that said, I was going to put up a PR for this, but noticed there isn't any sort of system to override the styles inside the main Elk frontend. Shouldn't one be implemented?

Another potential feature that would make use of being able to modify the underlying JS: updating the sidebar to take advantage of MacOS' / Windows' transparency features (if you feel that fits the design / overall experience of Elk).

My initial idea is to have some sort of patch system where the native app can run patches on the frontend code. That's probably ripe for bugs, especially as things change in the main codebase, so hopefully there's a better way!

Anyway, just thought it might be worth starting a conversation around this. Love the app so far!

The current update alert is okay, but it could be improved.

• Include release notes with markdown formatting
• It would be beneficial to add information about the authors and group the changes similarly to how elk does.

Currently we use git submodules to check out https://github.com/elk-zone/elk. This means our options for customising elk for native build are more limited and often have to happen upstream, which can hold back development of elk-native.

Instead, I propose we use the Nuxt extends/layers feature (issue tracker) to build on top of existing elk app.

This will allow us to move the tauri module that currently exists upstream into this rep and address issues like elk-zone/elk#1492 more easily.

Installed the 0.1.1 (20230118.113740) build of Elk Native.

The application launches without an errors, but only displays a blank window with the sidebar icons. (See first screenshot.)

Clicking on the sidebar icons with display header text for the various sections, but minimal other interface elements appear. (See second screenshot.)

I cannot sign into a Mastodon account or view any timelines.

• MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015)
• macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 (17G14042)

I'd like to contribute to the project but Discord link is dead.

• Need to provide all dependencies: build and runtime
• Try to have sections of instructions per OS
• Have common issues and possible workaround for specific OS's

Details:
Need to provide more detailed instructions as I tried to build on ubuntu and debian (in docker) and they failed cause of the errors related to rust version and cargo install tauri-cli

Moreover I suggest to try to use github workflow or dockerized build of AppImage to simplify the process

Will try to submit PR with updated instructions and possibly Dockerfile that will built app (I used arch linux as base image to do the build)

You've got releases for Linux, Ubuntu, Windows, and MacOS.
Where are the native releases for Android and iOS?
That's a pretty big gap for people who want to use Elk natively on mobile.

Not sure whether this is a generic Tauri issue or Elk Native specific, but I cannot drag the window around (using the title bar) on macOS.

(resizing the window by dragging borders does work, but I cannot move it)

I’m sure this is already on your radar, but wanted to make an issue to track so folks can subscribe for updates :)

Text is blurry and window flickers on Wayland (+hyprland).

I get a display until I try to login to my instance. Following the authorization screen, the window is completely white (empty), and I cannot click-and-drag the window anywhere. MacOS Ventura 13.2.1, M1.

Looks like submodule https://github.com/elk-zone/elk.git is not public, but needed.

🐘 🐘 🐘 and thanks: Elk is quite pretty and fast! 🐘 🐘 🐘

A new menu bar appeared after upgrading to v0.3.0, which seems to be a default one (with only entries for closing the window).

Installed Elk_0.1.0_linux_x86_64.deb on Pop!_OS with Eddy.

Authenticated against mastodon.lol, granted OAuth permission. Immediately after, I got the error in the title. I consistently see this - the very first time, after sign-out and sign-in when I no longer need to grant the permissions. Every time.

Once I get that, I can right click the body of the window and reload and from there it operates in parity with the Web UI. It is not obvious there is even a reload possible, I was just clicking at semi-random.

Message when installing the package :
A newer version is available in a repository.
It is strongly recommended that you install the version available in the repository, as it is usually better supported.

Because, as I mentioned in my previous issue, there is already another package named Elk.
Only solution: name your package Elk-native

On linux, there are many apps (such as kdewallet5 or gnome keyring), that provide org.freedesktop.secrets, so apps can ask them for passwords, login tokens etc, which these apps usually store in some encrypted way.

This basically functions like password manager, you login with a master password to decrypt the keyring and all other services can use different passwords, which you don't have to remember.

I've created this issue to track the progress, as I plan to implement this, but it's going to take me some time. (due to needed research, falling back to filesystem storage etc.)

I'm also not aware of whether those APIs exist on windows & macos, so this issue can also be used for discussion about implementing this on windows and macos.

I see you have an AppImage available for download, but making the package available on Flathub will allow elk-native to be easily accessible to many via GUI package manager frontends like GNOME Software. Although this is not final software, you can publish it to Flathub’s beta repository. I think it’s worth a look, keep up the great work!

After login and authorization click for elk in mastodon it redirects to a not https site iE http failing to authorize and therfore the complete login fails. This is with ravenation.club server .

Hi,

I am getting the "Cannot connect to server" error message when attempting to sign in:

Note: my instance is tech.lgbt, however I have also tested the mastodon.social and m.webtoo.ls servers.

I am using a version compiled from master. When running a release that has been compiled with cargo tauri build --debug (note: I can reproduce on a debug build as well as a non-debug build, installed from the AUR), the following log message is produced when attempting pressing the "Sign in" button:

[2023-12-05][18:26:18][ha@tauri://localhost/_nuxt/entry.00b77760.js:18:20962][ERROR] [h3]

The full logs are:

[2023-12-05][18:26:00][ha@tauri://localhost/_nuxt/entry.00b77760.js:18:20962][WARN] @nuxtjs/i18n Could not find en-US locale code in localeMessages
VM 0x7feb1e400000 on pid 22127 received NeedDebuggerBreak trap
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
[2023-12-05][18:26:18][ha@tauri://localhost/_nuxt/entry.00b77760.js:18:20962][ERROR] [h3]
[2023-12-05][18:26:33][ha@tauri://localhost/_nuxt/entry.00b77760.js:18:20962][ERROR] [h3]
[2023-12-05][18:26:43][ha@tauri://localhost/_nuxt/entry.00b77760.js:18:20962][ERROR] [h3]
[2023-12-05][18:26:45][ha@tauri://localhost/_nuxt/entry.00b77760.js:18:20962][ERROR] [h3]
[2023-12-05][18:27:22][ha@tauri://localhost/_nuxt/entry.00b77760.js:18:20962][ERROR] [h3]
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
[2023-12-05][18:28:33][ha@tauri://localhost/_nuxt/entry.00b77760.js:18:20962][ERROR] [h3]
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
[2023-12-05][18:29:16][ha@tauri://localhost/_nuxt/entry.00b77760.js:18:20962][ERROR] [h3]
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft
Couldn't get key from code: SuperLeft

Additionally, there is nothing in the browser console of interest.
Here is the full contents of the browser console:

[Error] Origin tauri://localhost is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. Status code: 200
[Error] Fetch API cannot load https://m.webtoo.ls/nodeinfo/2.0 due to access control checks.
[Error] Failed to load resource: Origin tauri://localhost is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. Status code: 200 (2.0, line 0)

Looking at the network requests, it does not seem to be making any requests, other than loading 2 inline svgs.

After messing around trying to get source maps to build so I can figure out where that error is from (I couldn't get it to work), I eventually managed to do smth that started showing the following console logs:

[Error] Refused to connect to tauri://localhost/api/tech.lgbt/login because it does not appear in the connect-src directive of the Content Security Policy.

so, my best guess, is that for some reason it doesn't want to connect to the internal server ? Unsure, though.
It also produced the following logs in the browser console:

[Warning] @nuxtjs/i18n Could not find en-US locale code in localeMessages (entry.864cc6c3.js, line 39)
[Error] Origin tauri://localhost is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. Status code: 200
[Error] Fetch API cannot load https://m.webtoo.ls/nodeinfo/2.0 due to access control checks.
[Error] Failed to load resource: Origin tauri://localhost is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. Status code: 200 (2.0, line 0)
[Error] Refused to connect to tauri://localhost/api/list-servers because it does not appear in the connect-src directive of the Content Security Policy. (x2)
[Error] FetchError: Load failed (/api/list-servers)
	ow (entry.864cc6c3.js:1:14337)
	zo (entry.864cc6c3.js:1:14290)
	(anonymous function) (entry.864cc6c3.js:1:13948)
[Error] Refused to connect to tauri://localhost/api/tech.lgbt/login because it does not appear in the connect-src directive of the Content Security Policy.

The "load new posts" counter isn't showing up for me in the most recent build, Elk v0.6.1, MacOS Monterey 12.5. Sorry, I may be forgetting the exact wording, but it's the thing at the top of the stack of posts that you can click to load new posts.

BTW this is a very nice feature, and another thing I like more than how certain other microblogging service native apps work.

Here's the log - looks truncated, let me know if there's something else you need here.
Elk.log

Cannot back to Elk when not signed to Mastodon. It will redirect to original Mastodon server.

For example, initially, I didn't sign in to m.webtoo.ls, and Elk will redirect me to webtools website and required my email and password. After signing in, it will redirect to m.webtoo.ls website instead of backing to Elk app.

Well, I met this problem only in the native app. When I maximize the window, the top bar of notifications will extend to the far right. It looks strange. Can you make it more natural?

@[email protected]
@elk Windows Defender Smart Screen won't let me open Elk Native v0.2.0
Is there a way to override this?

https://newsie.social/@SharonGibson3/109719852882123792

It seams to be related to code signing

When viewing a user's profile, I saw a light yellow color on the followers list count side. Is that intended behavior? However, clicking on the "post with replies" or "media" section the color goes back to normal (gets shifted to white color).

Here's the recording video

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I just had an instance where my post was exactly 500 characters and pushed publish and nothing happened. I copied and pasted my response into another app and it said I was 4 characters over 500. I edited the post to remove 4 characters and it posted fine.

(oops... may have put this on the wrong fork, please move if necessary)

when I click on "Search" in desktop MS Edge on Windows, I get the following error:

ERROR: MastoDeserializeError: Unknown content type */* returned from the server.

This happens on "Posts," "Hashtags" and "News." "For you" is OK.

My Mastodon instance (mastodon.cloud) is running 3.4.6.

Elk Version v0.7.4

Elk.app v0.2.0
macOS 13.2

I noticed that window dragging is working in the latest release, but it seems finicky when the window is at certain breakpoints. I've attached a screencast video demonstrating.

Thanks for the hard work here!

On Ubuntu, installing Elk_0.3.0_linux_x86_64.deb

There is a big problem with the other existing package
elk_3.99.8-4.2build1

As soon as the desktop app of Elk 0.3 is installed, it is deleted a few minutes later by an update of the other elk_3.99.8-4.2build1
It is therefore impossible to use the app.

It seems necessary to change the name so that there is no confusion between the 2 packages.

another thing:
still on Ubuntu, no links in the Appimage work ?...

this is very simple:

rustup target add aarch64-pc-windows-msvc
tauri build --target aarch64-pc-windows-msvc --bundles nsis

Elk Native (macOS build) only shows the posts in the timeline at the time the App was started; no further posts appear.

Shouldn't Elk automatically load new posts? (Or at least offer a way to reload manually?)

You don't seem to read the issues? At least not #61 where I already indicated that the links did not work in version 0.3

if I want to share a post via link I can klick on copy link to this post (as seen in the screenshot) or on share this post and then copy link. However in both cases I get this link, that starts with tauri.localhost followed by the real link. as in: https://tauri.localhost/<instance>/@<user>/<post-id>
(sorry I don't know if it would be ok to post a link here..)

Whatever server I try, I cannot sign in using the Native Elk App (I have been able to sign in using the web version of Elk on the same servers some time ago).