cwensley / jabbr.eto

A cross-platform client for JabbR

NOTE: This project is no longer maintained and is obsolete.

JabbR.Desktop

A cross platform JabbR client for OS X, Windows, and Linux

Download

• Windows Installer
• OS X Mac App Store

Description

This project aims to create a great cross platform desktop client for JabbR. This makes liberal use of the following libraries:

• Eto.Forms - Cross Platform UI toolkit
• JabbR.Client - .NET API for creating JabbR clients
• SignalR - Async library for .NET to help build real-time, multi-user interactive web applications
• Json.NET - Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
• MahApps.Metro - For Metro WPF styling
• CefGlue - Embedded chromium for WPF version

Screenshots

OS X Screenshot

Windows Screenshot

Ubuntu Screenshot

How To Build

Cloning:

This uses submodules, so ensure you do a recursive clone of this project!

OS X:

1. Install Xcode from Mac App Store
2. Install Mono SDK 3.0.6 for OS X
3. Install Xamarin Studio v4 for OS X
4. In terminal.app: git clone --recursive git://github.com/JabbR/JabbR.Desktop.git
5. Open Source/JabbR.Mac.sln in MonoDevelop
6. Build & Run!

Windows:

1. Install Visual 2012 Express for Windows Desktop
2. Install git client of choice
3. In console (or via gui): git clone --recursive git://github.com/JabbR/JabbR.Desktop.git
4. Open Source/JabbR.Windows.sln in Visual Studio
5. Build & Run!

Status

JabbR.Desktop is in a very early state and is missing many features or can be unstable.

Current features:

• Sign in using username/password
• Multiple servers
• Channel listing
• Private chats with other users
• Shows all media and links
• Collapsing notifications and media
• Autocomplete user names and channel rooms
• Gravatar icons
• More!

Contributing

You can help out by submitting missing features, bugs or requests into github issues, or fork the project and start coding!