/Scribe-Desktop

Typing GUI for language learners on Windows, Mac and Linux

Primary LanguageRustGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

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Typing GUI for language learners on Windows, Mac and Linux

Planned port of Scribe-iOS: see Issues

Scribe-Desktop is a language learning interface for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. The Scribe GUI provides needed information as the user types and serves as a field for input commands. Features include translation (beta), verb conjugation and word annotation that give users the tools needed to communicate with confidence.

Scribe is fully open-source and does not collect usage data or ask for system access. Feature data is sourced from Wikidata and stored in-app, meaning Scribe is a highly responsive experience that does not require an internet connection.

Note

The contributing section has information for those interested, with the articles and presentations in featured by also being good resources for learning more about Scribe.

Also available on iOS, Android (WIP) and for the data processes see Scribe-Data.

Check out Scribe's architecture diagrams for an overview of the organization including our applications, services and processes. It depicts the projects that Scribe is developing as well as the relationships between them and the external systems with which they interact.s

Contents

Preview ⇧

The following is a mockup of the planned interface:


Scribe-Desktop Preview

Contributing ⇧

Public Matrix Chat

Scribe uses Matrix for communications. You're more than welcome to join us in our public chat rooms to share ideas, ask questions or just say hi :)

Please see the contribution guidelines if you are interested in contributing to Scribe-Desktop. Work that is in progress or could be implemented is tracked in the issues and projects.

Note

Just because an issue is assigned on GitHub doesn't mean that the team isn't interested in your contribution! Feel free to write in the issues and we can potentially reassign it to you.

Those interested can further check the -next release- and -priority- labels in the issues for those that are most important, as well as those marked good first issue that are tailored for first time contributors.

Ways to Help ⇧

Road Map ⇧

The Scribe road map can be followed in the organization's project board where we list the most important issues along with their priority, status and an indication of which sub projects they're included in (if applicable).

Note

Consider joining our bi-weekly developer syncs!

Designs ⇧

Public Figma Designs

The designs for Scribe are made using Figma. Those with interest in contributing can open a design issue to make suggestions! Design related issues are marked with the design label.

Data Edits ⇧

Note

Please see the Wikidata and Scribe Guide for an overview of Wikidata and how Scribe uses it.

Scribe does not accept direct edits to the grammar JSON files as they are sourced from Wikidata. Edits can be discussed and the queries themselves will be changed and ran before an update. If there is a problem with one of the files, then the fix should be made on Wikidata and not on Scribe. Feel free to let us know that edits have been made by opening a data issue or contacting us in the issues for Scribe-Data and we'll be happy to integrate them!

Environment Setup ⇧

Those new to coding or wanting to develop their skills are more than welcome to contribute! The general steps to setting up a development environment are:

  1. Fork the Scribe-Desktop repo, clone your fork, and configure the remotes:

Note

Consider using SSH

Alternatively to using HTTPS as in the instructions below, consider SSH to interact with GitHub from the terminal. SSH allows you to connect without a user-pass authentication flow.

To run git commands with SSH, remember then to substitute the HTTPS URL, https://github.com/..., with the SSH one, git@github.com:....

  • e.g. Cloning now becomes git clone git@github.com:<your-username>/Scribe-Desktop.git

GitHub also has their documentation on how to Generate a new SSH key 🔑

# Clone your fork of the repo into the current directory.
git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/Scribe-Desktop.git
# Navigate to the newly cloned directory.
cd Scribe-Desktop
# Assign the original repo to a remote called "upstream".
git remote add upstream https://github.com/scribe-org/Scribe-Desktop.git
  • Now, if you run git remote -v you should see two remote repositories named:
    • origin (forked repository)
    • upstream (Scribe-Desktop repository)
  1. (Optional) Install pre-commit and its hooks to check for and correct common errors in commits:
pip install pre-commit
pre-commit install
# pre-commit run --all-files
  1. Run the following to spin up a local copy of the Scribe-Desktop GUI:
cd scribe
cargo build
cargo run --bin scribe
  1. You may need to give your terminal or IDE permission for your keyboard strokes to be read
    • You may also need to restart the application and then run cargo run --bin scribe again

Note

Feel free to contact the team in the Desktop room on Matrix if you're having problems getting your environment setup!

Featured By ⇧

Articles and Presentations on Scribe

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2022


Wikimedia Deutschland logo linking to an article on Scribe in the tech news blog.           Wikimedia Foundation logo linking to the MediaWiki new developers page.          

Google Summer of Code logo linking to its website.           Outreachy logo linking to its website.          

Powered By ⇧

Contributors

Many thanks to all the Scribe-Desktop contributors! 🚀

Wikimedia Communities


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