# Gnome-native deltachat app

**URL:** <https://support.delta.chat/t/gnome-native-deltachat-app/5056>\
**Category:** Show and Tell\
**Tags:** user-interface, desktop\
**Created:** [April 13, 2026, 7:20am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/gnome-native-deltachat-app/5056 "2026-04-13T07:20:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rako](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rako](https://support.delta.chat/u/rako)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2026, 7:20am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/gnome-native-deltachat-app/5056/1 "2026-04-13T07:20:09Z")

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It’s not mine, @trufae has been working on this nice native app:

> **[GitHub - trufae/deltachat-gnome: Native Gnome DeltaChat client](https://github.com/trufae/deltachat-gnome)**
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> Native Gnome DeltaChat client

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**Author:** ![link2xt](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/link2xt/32/1971_2.png) [@link2xt](https://support.delta.chat/u/link2xt)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/gnome-native-deltachat-app/5056/2 "2026-04-24T13:43:46Z")

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It has been renamed to [Parla](https://github.com/trufae/parla) now.

Has a nice “quick chat switcher” feature that I would like to have in Delta Chat Desktop as well. You press Ctrl+K, get a search popup (like [Rofi](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi) or dmenu application launchers or [Command Palette](https://support.delta.chat/t/command-palette/2390/2) in Visual Studio Code), type the chat name, select it and then you are in the new chat and the popup is gone:

 ![image](https://support.delta.chat/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7d3d1aca6d73b3edea87a5ac447dbb5667ccc239.png)

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**Author:** ![gregex](https://support.delta.chat/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@gregex](https://support.delta.chat/u/gregex)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/gnome-native-deltachat-app/5056/3 "2026-05-08T22:29:23Z")

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This is amazing! Just compiled it and it runs so smoothly. Will keep testing it!!!

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**Author:** ![trufae](https://support.delta.chat/user_avatar/support.delta.chat/trufae/32/2851_2.png) [@trufae](https://support.delta.chat/u/trufae)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://support.delta.chat/t/gnome-native-deltachat-app/5056/4 "2026-08-17T11:29:36Z")

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That command palette seems like an interesting feature. I will think about how that can work, for now you can just use keybindings