app Simple Diary

guru

Hello,

In the forum about the mobile Purism L5 someone announced some app to write a diary:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/app-simple-diary/11508
https://github.com/johan-bjareholt/simple-diary-gtk

I have below its README file. Its dependencies are:

GTK+3
webkit2gtk-4.0
md4c and md4c-html

Can we fullfill them?

Thanks

matthias

Simple Diary

Simple and lightweight diary app.

Many features are still missing as this is a work in progress.

Features

Saves entries in markdown
Adding images to your entries
Works for small form factor devices
Flatpak support

Dependencies

GTK+3
webkit2gtk-4.0
md4c and md4c-html

Building

Meson

First install dependencies listed above

Secondly run the following: meson build && ninja -C build

Executable will be built at build/src/simple-diary

Flatpak

Build the org.johanbjare.SimpleDiary.yml manifest as with any other flatpak
manifest with flatpak-builder

jonius

@guru it should be possible, but you would probably need to build and ship a build of GTK+3 with the app. Porting a Qt or HTML based app would be much easier.

guru

On my beloved FreeBSD I had to install the following ports (all
from a very recent ports tree, November 30):

# pkg info | egrep 'gtk3|webki|md4|meson|ninja'
gtk3-3.24.23_2                 Gimp Toolkit for X11 GUI (current stable version)
kf5-kdewebkit-5.76.0           KF5 library providing integration of QtWebKit
libcanberra-gtk3-0.30_5        Implementation of the Freedesktop sound theme spec
md4c-0.4.7                     Markdown Parser written in C
meson-0.56.0                   High performance build system
ninja-1.10.1,2                 Small build system closest in spirit to Make
qt5-webkit-5.212.0.a4_4        QtWebKit with a more modern WebKit code base
webkit2-gtk3-2.30.1_2          Opensource browser engine using the GTK+ 3 toolkit

With this the build of the app was just as simple as written in its README.md:

$ meson build && ninja -C build

The app needs around 120 shared libs. It starts fine and I have here a screen of my plasma desktop with the app and some text and a photo:

jonius

See Documentation for how to build the click with dependencies. You can check which dependencies can be installed from Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial repos in a version that fits the requirement. Maybe you'll find also PPAs to provide them. Otherwise you need to build them yourself.

But all of this is mentioned in the documentation linked above.