Supporting seshat's RecoveryDatabase in order to support reindexing.

element-hq/element-desktop#147

Otherwise if the Add-on is installed before the binary it'll never work unless the Add-on is dis/enabled or FF restarted

Incoming messages should get buffered for a while before dropping them

Also relevant for updating scenarios

Ubuntu support blocked by #18

riot-desktop has upcoming keytar support. Having that functionality in radical-native as well would be neat and the keytar bindings are done.

dirs is deprecated: https://github.com/dirs-dev/dirs-sys-rs

https://github.com/cjbassi/platform-dirs-rs

Currently RN uses the same EventStore if the same domain/path in the same container is used in multiple browser profiles. To mitigate this it should generate an UUID that's unique per installation and use that as an additional prefix for the event store directory name.

No support from upstream, makes it hard to keep this thing functional.

Adding something that pushes binary caches for nix somewhere as part of actions CI might be useful

• https://nixos.org/nix/
• https://cachix.org/

Please add deb to official debian repository or packages.riot.im

• Linux binary is build anyway, so that helps with non-debian based distros
• Add some notes on how to manually add the required native manifest

When you self-host riot its sometimes neccecary to a little copy paste dance when you see a matrix.to url, or if someone posts a link to riot.im/app#sometimestamp in riot.

Having Radical Native hijack the urls and maybe just opening them in the already opened tab would be a great feature!

Similar to Radical it might be nice to expose an Add-on preference to customize Riot's config.json

Reported in #radical-webext:matrix.org

any way to tell radical-native extension to shut up? it's spamming the console too much when I'm trying to debug my e2ee
(is it supposed to be constantly logging 5 messages per second when nothing is happening?)

Currently only the background has logging disabled by default. Makes sense to do it for the client-side (contentscript and bundle) as well.

Due to the refactoring to strongly typed message handling with serde the file tab broke. This could be fixed upstream if matrix-org/seshat#61 gets merged

Section must be filled to include in apt repository:

# reprepro includedeb sid radical-native_v0.1beta15_x86-amd64.deb
No section given for 'radical-native', skipping.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-section
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-subsections

Element in nexcloud by default is loaded inside an iframe within nextcloud. Enabling radical native there will break element, so it never loads. Opening just element in its own tab works fine.

Element seems to no longer fall back to the default / local storage key if none is found in the system keychain, hence it refuses to work correctly

Workarounds

• Log in with radical-native active
• or create the correct keychain entry

Related codepoints

• radical-native/native/src/secrets.rs

  Lines 29 to 36 in c1216f8

  	let Password { success, password } =
  	get_password(SERVICE, &account_string(content.user_id, content.device_id))?;
  	if success {
  	json!(password)
  	} else {
  	json!(null)
  	}

• https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/blob/983ffe98ff2f59d479a06aa3f504d44c4fd7c102/src/Lifecycle.ts#L388-L399

element-hq/element-desktop#104

Currently it returns Backwards / Forwards, should return b / f

See: https://github.com/matrix-org/seshat/blob/master/seshat-node/native/src/tasks.rs#L152

Could Radical Native Add-on be integrated into riot-web? If no, please add it to AMO.

Since there is no instruction to install without a package, I'm pasting here a little script to run.

#!/bin/bash

USERPATH="$HOME/bin"
FFNATIVE="$HOME/.mozilla/native-messaging-hosts"
BINNAME="radical-native_v0.1beta15_x86-amd64"

native_manifest() {
    cat <<-END
{
    "name": "radical.native",
    "description": "Radical Native",
    "path": "$1",
    "type": "stdio",
    "allowed_extensions": [ "@radical-native", "@riot-webext" ]
}
END
}

mv "$BINNAME" "$USERPATH/$BINNAME"
ln -s "$USERPATH/$BINNAME" "$USERPATH/radical-native"
chmod +x "$USERPATH/radical-native"
mkdir -p "$FFNATIVE"
native_manifest "$USERPATH/radical-native" > "$FFNATIVE/radical.native.json"

On Fedora, sqlcipher needs to be installed, and a symlink to be done to get rid of error while loading shared libraries. (Is it related to #17 and #18 ? ldd radical-native may help)

# dnf install sqlcipher
# ln -s /lib64/libsqlcipher.so /lib64/libsqlcipher.so.0
# ln -s /lib64/libsqlcipher-3.15.2.so.0.8.6 /lib64/libsqlcipher.so # may be needed

element-hq/element-desktop#100

seshat added support for paginated results: matrix-org/seshat#63

This also requires to re-index the database, so that would need to be added as well.

Implemented in matrix-org/seshat#64, but seems to net getting used in Riot yet.

Snap related issues when trying to use native messaging:

• error while loading shared libraries: libsqlcipher.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory or "no such native host" when installing the native manifest on user level, because snap runs in its own sandbox
  • Related Firefox issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1462888
  • Related Chromium issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1741074

Might need an interface: https://snapcraft.io/docs/interface-management