🧪 Help testing the upcoming v1.45.X release

[Simon]

Linux phones and flathub beta

Flathub Beta

The beta is out on flathub, the transition from dc-node to jsonrpc rpc binary npm package took its time, but now it’s finally available. If you wonder about version, it’s currently an in-between version between 1.45.4 and the upcoming 1.45.5 test release.

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub-beta chat.delta.desktop

read more about beta repos on How to use flathub-beta - Tutorials and Tips - Flathub Discourse

Small Screen Mode makes it usable on linux phones.

It got warm, probably because electron is a resource hog. Also beware of the graphical glitches (see the send button).
Anyways this use case is not officially supported, if you can try deltatouch or maybe the tauri version (That I’ll make soon) works more efficient.
Or contribute to kdeltachat or one of the other clients ( List of all know Client Projects) to make them a viable alternative in the future, currently there are many missing features in those clients.

[Raiden]

I think there is a incorrect grammatical tense used in German when displaying reactions in the chat list.
A reaction to a message is displayed in the chat list like this:

Shouldn’t it be past tense?
For example: “Sie reagierten mit …”.

This also applies to DC-Android and DC-iOS.

[r10s]

@Raiden

For example: “Sie reagierten mit …”.

makes sense, thanks for pointing that out. i changed the string accordingly on Transifex:

they will be picked up on next translation pull, for all platforms.

[Simon]

1.45.5 is now ready for testing.
(reaction translation fix is not in that test version, will come with the next version)

Changelog

• Added
  • send contact as VCard from attachment context menu #3830
• Changed
  • Update translations (2024-06-08) #3923
  • Update @deltachat/stdio-rpc-server and deltachat/jsonrpc-client to 1.140.2
• Fixed
  • Do not set min window dimensions on screens that are smaller than those min dimensions (such as linux phones) #3919
  • packaging: respect NO_ASAR env var in afterPackHook #3916
  • fix image cropper is not started when creating a group #3920
  • refresh member list after changes #3807

Download

• Index of /desktop/v1.45.5/

[x9ee2]

Delta Chat Desktop	1.46.0 (git: flathub)
Delta Chat Core	v1.140.2
SQLite	3.39.4
electron	30.0.6
node	20.11.1

Map not works on PC!
Debian 12 (XFCE)

[Simon]

have you tried a test version before? if so please try it on a fresh/new account/profile.

[Simon]

Delta Chat Desktop 1.46 is mostly released now, thanks for your help testing it.

Release Progress 1.46.0 💫

[Andreas]

Good morning, I tried in the testing group but no one answered me.
A Desktop Linux user asked me what is it due to?

I just opened DC (desktop) which was minimized and the window was all gray with only the menu visible.
I had a nice log file full of these messages, until I closed it.

2024-06-19T22:20:45.566Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/imap.rs:542: Not fetching from \"INBOX\"."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.607Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/scheduler.rs:674: IMAP session supports IDLE, using it."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.608Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/imap.rs:542: Not fetching from \"INBOX\"."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.645Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/scheduler.rs:674: IMAP session supports IDLE, using it."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.646Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/imap.rs:542: Not fetching from \"INBOX\"."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.685Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/scheduler.rs:674: IMAP session supports IDLE, using it."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.686Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/imap.rs:542: Not fetching from \"INBOX\"."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.725Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/scheduler.rs:674: IMAP session supports IDLE, using it."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.726Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/imap.rs:542: Not fetching from \"INBOX\"."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.765Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/scheduler.rs:674: IMAP session supports IDLE, using it."
2024-06-19T22:20:45.766Z core/event INFO "" 2 "src/imap.rs:542: Not fetching from \"INBOX\"."
2024-06-19T22:25:44.551Z main/menu INFO "" "rebuilding menu with locale it"
2024-06-19T22:25:46.565Z main/state INFO "" "Saving state to D:\\Remote\\OneDrive\\Portable\\DeltaChat\\DeltaChatData\\config.json"
2024-06-19T22:25:56.573Z main/state INFO "" "Saving state to D:\\Remote\\OneDrive\\Portable\\DeltaChat\\DeltaChatData\\config.json"
2024-06-19T22:26:01.332Z main/index INFO "" "Starting app shutdown process"
2024-06-19T22:26:01.343Z main/state INFO "" "Saving state to D:\\Remote\\OneDrive\\Portable\\DeltaChat\\DeltaChatData\\config.json"
2024-06-19T22:26:01.863Z main/index INFO "" "Quitting now. Bye."

DC Version 1.46.0

[imysl0]

In the desktop client, it seems that there is noticeably more blank space in the View menu compared to others. Should we adjust this? (It doesn’t affect functionality at all.)

[Simon]

I don’t know how, maybe it’s related to the separator line between language and developer?
If you find out how to fix it, feel free to open a pr on GitHub. But I’m not sure if it’s easy to fix, because that menu is native (handled by windows) and the issue does not appear on MacOS.

[Simon]

sounds like a wayland electron issue to me, where was dc desktop installed from? what distro is this on?

[imysl0]

I encountered the same situation on both Win11 and Linux (deb). This issue seems quite advanced, and I truly am not a programmer, so I don’t even know where to start,

[imysl0]

It seems that all view menus have this issue, which is a bit strange.

• in webxdc
  
• in help window
  

[WofWca]

It’s because it’s making space for the check mark that can appear against “Float on Top”

[imysl0]

It seems that’s how it is.