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    [Alpha] Greenline - A qml Whatsapp client for Ubuntu Touch

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    • brenno.almeidaB Offline
      brenno.almeida
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      New release: message prior this release can look strange because of a refactor I did, to avoid problems disconnect your whatsapp account in settings and reconnect after installing this update

      https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases

      • Draft support: typing in a chat will save your message next time you get back to that chat
      • Complete rework of how this app handles notifications, which should enable new features for specific message types in the future
      • Fix a bug that made the user avatar go away when downloading media in a group chat
      • Mentions should be rendered correctly now, including notifications
      • Simplified the unread count bubble (although its a big buggy now)
      • Centralized name resolution, now the app is consistent when showing names across replies, chat lists, headers, etc
      • Fixed a bug if you start a chat, the chat will have your name
      • Full support for edited messages: now the new text is shown with an edited badge, and you can edit your own messages aswell
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        Linus67
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        I’d actually prefer to do without META products. But that’s hardly possible. My music mates, tennis pals and other friends only use WhatsApp.
        For my UT as a day-to-day device, there wasn’t really anything useful like a quick-check app to see what’s going on with certain WhatsApp users (groups) who organise all their appointments and updates in groups.
        WhatsNew never really worked for me. Too slow, too cluttered.

        This morning I installed Grennlines. It’s a really good project and a perfect solution to my unwelcome WhatsApp dependency. Many thanks for the solution.
        For me, the current state of development is already perfect. It starts up very quickly and has everything I need. Let me buy you a bottle of wine!

        Pixel 3a, NextCloud, pihole, Wireguard VPN, Trilium, Paperless ngx...

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          Linus67
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          "Hi Brenno, I'm using Greenline on a Pixel 3a (Ubuntu Touch RC). I noticed that the greenline-daemon stays active and consumes significant resources even when notifications are disabled in the app settings. On older devices, this leads to OOM (Out of Memory) crashes and system reboots.
          Feature Request: Could you add a 'Kill Daemon on Exit' toggle for users who don't need background notifications? If notifications are off, the daemon shouldn't stay resident in memory after closing the UI."

          Pixel 3a, NextCloud, pihole, Wireguard VPN, Trilium, Paperless ngx...

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            Linus67
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            PS:
            Now I use a skript (systemctl --user stop greenline.service) and use it with a Desktop link. This works perfectly for my WhatsApp usage. This way, I can stop all WhatsApp data usage completely if I don’t need Greenline for a few days.

            Pixel 3a, NextCloud, pihole, Wireguard VPN, Trilium, Paperless ngx...

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            • Vlad NirkyV Offline
              Vlad Nirky @Linus67
              last edited by

              @Linus67
              Could you tell me how to add the script shortcut in Lomiri?
              Greenline is great (to keep my wife happy – she uses WhatsApp and sees it as the most obvious way to communicate)

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                Linus67 @Vlad Nirky
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                @Vlad-Nirky

                nano ~/.local/share/applications/gkill.desktop

                ini
                [Desktop Entry]
                Name=Stop Greenline
                Exec=/home/phablet/stop_greenline.sh
                Terminal=false
                Type=Application
                Icon=/home/phablet/Pictures/greenline_stop.png

                Pixel 3a, NextCloud, pihole, Wireguard VPN, Trilium, Paperless ngx...

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                • Vlad NirkyV Offline
                  Vlad Nirky @Linus67
                  last edited by

                  @Linus67 said:

                  nano ~/.local/share/applications/gkill.desktop

                  ini
                  [Desktop Entry]
                  Name=Stop Greenline
                  Exec=/home/phablet/stop_greenline.sh
                  Terminal=false
                  Type=Application
                  Icon=/home/phablet/Pictures/greenline_stop.png

                  Thank you for this.
                  🙂

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                  • brenno.almeidaB Offline
                    brenno.almeida
                    last edited by brenno.almeida

                    Nice script to stop the daemon, I added to the todo list to include before release

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                    • mihaelM Offline
                      mihael
                      last edited by

                      And then how do you restart the service? - simply by restarting the app? or by systemctl --user start greenline.service ?

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                        Linus67 @mihael
                        last edited by

                        @mihael simply by restarting the app

                        Pixel 3a, NextCloud, pihole, Wireguard VPN, Trilium, Paperless ngx...

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                          ChromiumOS-Guy @brenno.almeida
                          last edited by ChromiumOS-Guy

                          @brenno.almeida awesome app, switched to it.
                          a thing you should add, is aytanna message indicator support so we can see messages after timer runs out.

                          other then that, i think you should expand settings to include all the standard chat and profile settings.

                          also sqlite db files should be encrypted if possible.

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