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Just installed the desktop app and it's awesome. (piefed.social)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/interstellar@kbin.earth
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Really nice work! Looks great on a big screen. Functional. Ontly tthing it's missing that I can tell is a spell checker.

Ole more thing, how do you refresh? on desktop there is no way to pull down?

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[–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not NixOS, just did a fresh install of Arch. Just got a new laptop. Usually I go with easyArch distros and havn't done a proper arch install in probably 4 years. So I landed on hyprland insted of my normal KDE. Been wanting to give it a go for a year now. Fresh arch install is the way to go IMO when trying new DE's. I was thinking that there might be a program agnostic spell checkers in the AUR I could use? I'll have to look into it as I cant spell for shit!

Just found the refresh!

I'd personally like to make some changes to the app that will make it more desktop friendly (e.g., split screen, tabs, keyboard shortcuts, etc.) as the app has mainly focused on mobile platforms up to this point.

That would be nice! I'd like to help when and where I can, if I can? Probably dont know the development language as I'm pretty much a python monkey but I can do some testing if you need.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh nice! I used to be a Debian/Ubuntu only person, but I tried EndeavourOS quite a few years ago, and it's been great ever since! Last year I installed Arch the vanilla way, and I had to boot up the USB multiple times, but I finally got things working on it. I'm definitely glad I did the standard install at least once though, because I learned way more things about Linux than I ever would have from installing other distros. I would have an extremely hard time fixing boot issues, for instance, without having installed Arch from the wiki. I know when I installed LibreOffice, the wiki page recommends installing Hunspell for spell checking; I'm assuming it would work with other programs as well?

    Interstellar uses Flutter (UI framework) & Dart (language); it's not difficult at all to learn if you'd like to get into it, especially if you've used web technologies before. We're always looking for more contributors if you'd be interested 😉! Anyway, I'll keep you in mind for testing; it's good to know there's another person using it on desktop. I can't make any guarantees for when the desktop improvements would come, just since there's already so much other stuff to do, but I'll definitely let you know!

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago

    eOS is great! I usually go with garudaOS as I almost always have a gaming laptop with nvidia and they make all the nvidia config headache painless. Since I just got my Framework 16 I went with amd-cpu/gpu so I didnt have to even think aboutit. I thought since I can build and replace what I need in the inside, I should probably build my OS as well and why should I stop with just the OS? Might as well build and set up the desktop too. Arch is always an adventure. First time setting up my own luks, btrfs, snapper setup. Still have a bit to do like signing secureboot and TPM but I think I have things the way I want it setup so I wont have to nuke and reinstall at for a year or two or until I get board...

    Never herd of Flutter or Dart. Have been coding in JS since 00, maybe earlier. A few years ago I rebuilt my website and degoogled it. Wrote everything in js, php and python. For GUI's I've only used python based kivy and wxpython.

    Once I have my dev enviroment and desktop all set up I'll pop over to the git repo and take a look at the code and if I feel I can make heads or tails of it and if I think I could make meaningful contributions while being more helpfull that a burden I'll pull the code and see what I can do!

    Thanks for your work here! I do really love the app on mobile and desktop, even if it doesn't yet have all the bells and whistles yet. I'll check out Hunspell as well, see what I can shake out!

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