[opensuse-support] riot-web
[WHY?: because moznet IRC is shutting down; luckily, freenode still works]
"riot-web A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web Riot (formerly known as Vector) is a Matrix web client built using the Matrix React SDK." I installed it from darix home, but:
man riot-web No manual entry for riot-web which riot-web which: no riot-web in (/opt/kde3/bin:/home/me/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/home/me/bin)
Search box in menu starter turns up nothing. So I loaded https://riot.im/app/, but it invisibly claims: "Sorry, your browser is not able to run Riot. Riot uses many advanced browser features, some of which are not available or experimental in your current browser. Please install Chrome, Firefox, or Safari for the best experience. With your current browser, the look and feel of the application may be completely incorrect, and some or all features may not function. If you want to try it anyway you can continue, but you are on your own in terms of any issues you may encounter!" I opened https://riot.im/ in another browser, but I don't see a connection between it and the installed riot-web package. Google doesn't seem to want to provide a link to useful instructions for using riot-web. What's the secret? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org
Hi On 2/25/20 7:53 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
[WHY?: because moznet IRC is shutting down; luckily, freenode still works]
From https://software.opensuse.org/package/riot-web :
"riot-web
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web
Riot (formerly known as Vector) is a Matrix web client built using the Matrix React SDK."
I installed it from darix home, but:
man riot-web No manual entry for riot-web which riot-web which: no riot-web in (/opt/kde3/bin:/home/me/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/home/me/bin)
Search box in menu starter turns up nothing.
So I loaded https://riot.im/app/, but it invisibly claims:
"Sorry, your browser is not able to run Riot.
Riot uses many advanced browser features, some of which are not available or experimental in your current browser.
Please install Chrome, Firefox, or Safari for the best experience.
With your current browser, the look and feel of the application may be completely incorrect, and some or all features may not function. If you want to try it anyway you can continue, but you are on your own in terms of any issues you may encounter!"
I opened https://riot.im/ in another browser, but I don't see a connection between it and the installed riot-web package.
Google doesn't seem to want to provide a link to useful instructions for using riot-web.
What's the secret?
The riot app is an electron based web app anyway so its not much different from running it in your browser. There are several other clients you could try some of which are listed here https://matrix.org/clients/ tying it back to an openSUSE solution most openSUSE matrix channels are bridged to discord (as well as select irc channels) and thats how I tend to use them. Cheers -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
Simon Lees composed on 2020-02-25 09:01 (UTC-1030):
Felix Miata wrote:
[WHY?: because moznet IRC is shutting down; luckily, freenode still works]
"riot-web
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web ... What's the secret?
The riot app is an electron based web app anyway so its not much different from running it in your browser. There are several other clients you could try some of which are listed here https://matrix.org/clients/ tying it back to an openSUSE solution most openSUSE matrix channels are bridged to discord (as well as select irc channels) and thats how I tend to use them.
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Inet/ircCZ20200225.jpg is what I'm used to. In comparison, all the desktop candidates on that URL look depressing by comparison, all icon emphasized, a language I poorly deal with since they're always both too tiny to comprehend, yet too big, taking up space better utilized otherwise, such as more of the conversations. But, I do note there that Riot Web is the first listed. As long as I seem to have it installed, what does it take to get it to open? "Discord is a proprietary freeware VoIP application and digital distribution platform designed for video gaming communities" from Wikipedia looks similarly discouraging. # zypper se -s electron ... No matching items found. Another :~( , and nothing on https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&baseproject=ALL&q=electron seems to be a match either. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-support+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-support+owner@opensuse.org
On 2/25/20 3:59 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
Simon Lees composed on 2020-02-25 09:01 (UTC-1030):
Felix Miata wrote:
[WHY?: because moznet IRC is shutting down; luckily, freenode still works]
"riot-web
A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web ... What's the secret?
The riot app is an electron based web app anyway so its not much different from running it in your browser. There are several other clients you could try some of which are listed here https://matrix.org/clients/ tying it back to an openSUSE solution most openSUSE matrix channels are bridged to discord (as well as select irc channels) and thats how I tend to use them.
http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Inet/ircCZ20200225.jpg is what I'm used to. In comparison, all the desktop candidates on that URL look depressing by comparison, all icon emphasized, a language I poorly deal with since they're always both too tiny to comprehend, yet too big, taking up space better utilized otherwise, such as more of the conversations.
Quaternion is almost certainly the most similar to that. I tried it once, atleast at that point if there wasn't a package in the main distro there was one in obs
But, I do note there that Riot Web is the first listed. As long as I seem to have it installed, what does it take to get it to open?
Ahh I just figured it out :-) the riot-web package you installed is the source for the web client, ie what you get if you take a modern browser to https://riot.im/app/ I guess you want the riot-desktop package. Although from your other comments in this email you probably don't it uses 'electron' more on that below.
"Discord is a proprietary freeware VoIP application and digital distribution platform designed for video gaming communities" from Wikipedia looks similarly discouraging.
In some ways its kinda like facebook, in that its a standard platform that heaps of people use so we wind up with a community there because heaps of openSUSE users already use it for other things.
# zypper se -s electron ... No matching items found. Another :~( , and nothing on https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&baseproject=ALL&q=electron seems to be a match either.
Electron is a thing for running JavaScript apps (basically glorified websites) as desktop apps it comes bundled in with said apps like Riot (Desktop) and Atom and is kinda the equivalent to running a whole other instance of chrome for each app that uses it, so judging from some of your other emails this is less interesting for you as they use alot of ram. Cheers -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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