[Alpha] Greenline - A qml Whatsapp client for Ubuntu Touch
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One more thing:
In its current state, Greenline is actually the PERFECT messenger for children!
Since it focuses purely on communication without all the bloated social-media distractions like Channels, Communities, or Status tabs, it provides a safe environment. Plus, keeping the contact history ensures that old group connections (like school or sports clubs) aren't lost and remain recognizable.Thank you for building such a clean, fast, and battery-friendly alternative!
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Would you consider doing a confined version of the app without a background deamon, and with the go part only running when the app itself is running? I think it would be usefull for those who don't want notifications all the time, and don't want their battery to be drained by the deamon or are not comfortable with having a whatsapp deamon running at all time. And it would be easier to publish on the openstore!
Thank's a lot for your work!
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you need to add the ability to send files, you currently don't have the option so i cannot upload a .pptx for example.
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@Linus67 The chat list is the source of truth for contact information, there's no separate list of contacts in this app. This makes the code easier to undersand and with fewer moving parts, but the tradeoff is that to render the person name in the group it needs to exist as a individual in the list, so removing chats is not possible.
This is unlikely to change, would add a complexity I don't want to manage. However I do plan to add basic filtering in the list, similar to how Teleports works, which should mitigate this.
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@pparent No plans for a confined version, mainly due to the burden of mantaining two versions of the same app. The best move here is to work with UT devs for proper support of backgroud services for click packages, so this app can run confined as is.
Support for pausing the daemon when app closes is planned tho, which achieves the same result I think.
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@ChromiumOS-Guy contributions are welcome! But support for all message types is planned before going beta
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i just found something. i deleted a whole conversation thread on my whatsapp android but i still can see it on greenline and i cannot delete it. i had this behavior on other whatsapp web based apps
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@StephPTi
Now you can see in Greenline: Meta stores all your actions on WhatsApp. If you like a comment in a group, that contact is stored in the database linked to your phone number. You can view all these records now in Greenline.
You now have a complete list of the phone numbers (contacts) to which you have ever reacted or commented. This is part of the metadata that WhatsApp stores permanently on its servers: when you interacted with whom. This means that most of what you delete in WhatsApp is simply hidden.In a future version of Greenline, it may be possible to hide this ‘metadata’.
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There's a new release for this app. I recommend disconnecting an connecting Whatsapp after installing this update using the settings since there was some rework on how messages are represented, which can lead to old glitched messages. Since its an alpha, I'm not guaranteeing consistency on each update:
https://github.com/brennoflavio/greenline/releases
- Better offline mode: now if the app has no connection, messages are queued to be sent once connection is back
- Optimizations for rooms that had a lot of replied messages, should load faster now
- Now the pending / sent / delivered / read icons matches closely with whatsapp
- Better handling when whatsapp servers are unavailable, avoiding app crashes
- Better media previews: now you can zoom in / out images, its easier to pause / reproduce videos, and better look and feel
- Fixed a bug where if the person used whatsapp on two devices (like web and app), its chat appeared duplicated and in groups the profile picture did not appear when the message was sent from the second device
- Prevent app crash when trying to download media while offline
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@brenno.almeida
The installation went smoothly and without any issues.One thing that would be really useful:
When there are lots of new messages for a contact or in a group, I can see the correct number (e.g. 20). Perfect!
When I go into the chat and want to read the messages, I can’t tell which 20 are the new ones.
When the contact or group chat is opened, you should be able to see which messages haven’t been read yet.
When you leave the chat, all messages should be marked as read.
Now I have to spend time reading the messages to figure out if I’ve already read them.Many thanks for your work on this exciting implementation of a third-party WhatsApp solution in QML for Ubuntu Touch!
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