samdroid-apps/something-for-reddit

A Reddit Client For GNOME (with Gtk+ and Python)

Something For Reddit

A simple Reddit client for GNOME, built for touch, mouse and VIM keyboards.

Features

• Touchscreen tested interface
• VIM style keybindings
• View subreddits, comments and user pages
• Vote on comments and links, write replies
• Integrated WebKit2 browser for viewing links
• Multi-account support

Packages

Up to date:

Distro	Command	Info
Flatpak	flatpak install https://flatpak.dl.sam.today/today.sam.reddit-is-gtk.flatpakref
NixOS	Run nix-shell --command reddit-is-gtk inside the git repo	see app.nix for package
openSUSE		https://software.opensuse.org/package/something-for-reddit

Being updated (feel free to contribute):

Distro	Command	Info
Fedora	dnf copr enable samtoday/something-for-reddit; dnf install something-for-reddit	https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/samtoday/something-for-reddit/
Archlinux	yaourt -S something-for-reddit-git	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/something-for-reddit-git/

Installing

I did this ages ago, so I don't really remember.

1. Install gnome-common (and autotools, etc.)
2. Install the python3-arrow and python3-markdown
3. Install the sassc (from your package manager)

Then you can just install it like any usual program.

1. Download the source code (eg. git clone https://github.com/samdroid-apps/something-for-reddit; cd something-for-reddit)
2. ./autogen.sh
3. make
4. sudo make install

There is a .desktop file, but it is also reddit-is-gtk command

Please report the bugs or deficiencies that you find via Github Issues.

Development

A development shell using Nix is provided in dev-shell.nix. You can run it with the following command:

nix-shell dev-shell.nix

This will include instructions to run the app.

Flatpak

You can build the flatpak with the following commands:

flatpak-builder build-dir today.sam.reddit-is-gtk.json --force-clean --install

To build the from the local copy of your source, use change the sources option in the flatpak to as follows:

      "sources": [
        {
          "type": "dir",
          "path": ".",
          "skip": [
            "__build_prefix",
            ".flatpak-builder",
            "flatpak-repo"
          ]
        }
      ]

Outdated Roadmap

Feel free to contribute and do whatever you want.

Please try and use Flake8!

• Any app icon suggestions/designs are appreciated
  • The current one isn't great at all
• Replace the media previews, integrate them with the comments view
• Use gettext
  • If you are interested in translateing this app, please email me!
• Search all the subreddits on reddit
• Manage subreddits dialog
• Better handle private messages
• Multireddits in the urlbar list
• Mutlireddit add/remove subreddits

Long Term

• Optimise the comments view performance
• Separate the reddit json parsing from the view components
• Support other sites (eg. hackernews)