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TheDesk next(v25~)

日本語

Mastodon(and Misskey) client for PC, based on Fedistar

What difference from Fedistar?

• TheDesk UI(like TheDesk ~v24)
  • Floating post box
  • It can be color-coded by column or account
  • Flexible and intuitive width resizing timeline
• TheDesk config
  • The format of the time displayed on the timeline can be changed(absolute/relative)
  • Allow icons to animate or not
  • Automatic folding and abbreviated display of long posts
  • Setting whether to leave the post box open after posting
  • Secondary post button to change visibility of post easily
• TheDesk features
  • Spotify NowPlaying
  • Apple Music/iTunes NowPlaying(macOS only)
  • Text-to-speech of timeline posts
  • Media only timeline
  • Vertical stacking of timeline
• Others
  • Partial support for Misskey

Get TheDesk

Website or GitHub Release page

System Config

Can be edited in config.json in AppData(macOS: Application Support) folder. You can easily jump to this folder from the settings screen

hardwareAcceleration: Hardware Acceleration(default: true)
allowDoH: Use DNS over HTTPS (default: true)

Development

pnpm install --shamefully-hoist
pnpm run dev

Because of electron-builder, use shamefully-hoist option to launch production build.

Build

pnpm run build
pnpm run pack:win # Windows(able to run on Windows)
pnpm run pack:linux # Linux(able to run on any OS)
pnpm run pack:mac # macOS(able to run on macOS)

Notarize(macOS)

It is currently set to be notarized with the developer's signature. Edit build-tool/noratize.js. To remove notarization, set const useNotarize to false in the third line of build-tool/noratize.js.