Version without electron or webcrap?

[hooberhaggus]

Is there a version of deltachat without webshit? I am seeking out apps like this to avoid having my resources hogged by that BS

[Simon]

1. you could run the android app in anbox or an android emulator
2. use the pidgin plugin https://code.ur.gs/lupine/purple-plugin-delta/ (many features are not implemented there yet)
3. You could write your own front-end based on https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-core-rust or join an existing front-end project:
   https://git.sr.ht/~link2xt/kdeltachat - kde qt client
   https://github.com/adbenitez/deltachat-cursed - TUI client based on ncTelegram

Also that question was asked before for Linux at-least:

Are there any native linux desktop apps in the works?

Are there any plans to release a native linux app (not based on electron)? I think this is a really neat project, however, there are so many electron apps these days and they are so…inefficient. especially if you have 2 or more electron apps you use. It just seems really unnecessary to have such a memory hog for a chat app and it is a pretty big barrier to me actually switching to this.

[markc]

I’m also curious about this as well. The KDE/Kirigami link above is worth following up but it requires building from source. My main concern is not dealing with the Electron overhead so would it be possible to create a web-only version without the Electron wrapper? Would that be hard to do?

Then it could be a similar situation to Matrixs element-desktop and element-web packages as yet another alternative way to interact with DeltaChat. It would then be almost a webmail client like Roundcube, but better

[link2xt]

There are plans to separate Delta Chat Desktop from Electron, mainly for easier debugging and testing, but I can’t find any relevant issue open in https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-desktop/issues.

cc @Simon @Jikstra