stqism / ricin

A dead-simple but powerful Tox client.

Ricin: A Lightweight and Fully-Hackable Tox client powered by Vala & Gtk3!
Wants to be involved? Their is several way to help us! ^-^ Dependencies - Compiling - Contribute - Support us - Get started with Vala

Introduction

Ricin aims to be a secure, lightweight, hackable and fully-customizable chat client using the awesome and open-source ToxCore library. We know that there are several Tox clients but this project was initially made because the other clients are still missing many features that users have been waiting for over many months. Ricin is a simple but powerful cross-platform client written in Vala and using Gtk+ 3.0.

Screenshot might be outdated but it should give you a general idea of what is Ricin

Dependencies

Package name	Version
meson (building)
ninja (building)	>=1.5.1
valac	>=0.28.1
gtk+3	>=3.16
libtoxcore	>=0.0.0
glib2	>=2.38
json-glib	>=1.0
libsoup	>=2.4
libnotify	>=0.0.0
libconfig	>=0.0.0

Installing

We currently have an ArchLinux package made by @LastAvenger available at the following url: ricin-git You can also use the following command:

yaourt -S ricin-git

Compiling

Please refer to the Install.md to install the dependencies on your Linux distribution.

git clone --recursive https://github.com/RicinApp/Ricin.git
cd Ricin
mkdir build
meson . build
make debug

Contribute

You can contribute to improving Ricin by proposing Pull-requests, reporting bugs or suggestions using the GitHub issues tracker, submiting a Bounty.

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Support Ricin developement

You can support the Ricin client developement by

• Paying us a Bounty
• Submiting donations via Bitcoin: 3L7B6XAQM27uxfRK8wUQ4fsfja832EKweM
• Backing an issue via Bountsource to make people able to work on it full-time! :)

Vala resources to get started

Before clicking on any link beside, you must know what is Vala and why it is so powerful and easy to use: What is Vala?

• Official Vala website
• Official Vala documentation
• Download Vala compiler and tools
• The Vala Tutorial: (English) (Spanish) (Russian) (Hebrew)
• Vala for C# Programmers
• Vala for Java Programmers: (English) (Russian)
• Vala memory management explained
• Writing VAPI files: A document that explains how to write VAPI binding files for a C library.

Mockups

See

• https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/tree/master/chat
• https://wiki.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Chat
• misc/mockup2.png