🖥️ Nextcloud Talk Desktop 💬

Nextcloud Talk Desktop client based on Nextcloud Talk web application bundling ✨

📥 Download Binaries

https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases

🏗️ Prerequisites

• Nextcloud Server version 27 or higher.
• Nextcloud Talk version 17 or higher.

👾 Drawbacks

• Currently not supported:
  • Search (#30)
  • Untrusted certificate on Linux (#23)
  • Dark/light theme (#17)
• Works with limitations:
  • File Viewer — only images and videos

👥 Multi-account

Full multi-account currently is not currently supported.

However, using portable zip distribution, you can have several Nextcloud Talk instances run simultaneously. Just rename the executable from default Nextcloud Talk to a custom name. For example:

/path/to/apps/
├── home-apps/
│   └── Nextcloud Talk/
│       ├── ...
│       ├── Nextcloud Talk (Home).exe
│       └── ...
└── work-apps/
    └── Nextcloud Talk/
        ├── ...
        ├── Nextcloud Talk (Work).exe
        └── ...

🛠️ Development Setup

Initial setup

# Install dependencies
npm ci

# Make .env file
cp .env.example .env

# Don't forget to configure ENV variables! 

Nextcloud Talk Desktop requires Nextcloud Talk source code.

No nextcloud/spreed is cloned?

Clone nextcloud/spreed and install dependencies:

# Clone in the repository root
git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed

# Install dependencies
cd ./spreed/
npm ci

# Don't forget to return back
cd ../

nextcloud/spreed is already cloned?

Set TALK_PATH ENV variable or edit .env file:

TALK_PATH=/path/to/nextcloud-dev/apps/spreed/

🧑‍💻 Development

Start development server in Electron

npm run dev

Build binaries for production

# 🖥️ Current platform and architecture
npm run build

# 🐧 Linux (x64)
npm run build:linux

# 🍏 macOS (universal)
npm run build:mac
# 🍏 macOS (separate x64 and arm64)
npm run build:mac:x64
npm run build:mac:arm64

# 🪟 Windows (win32-x64)
npm run build:windows

Notes:

• General recommendation is to always build binaries on the same platform
• Building Windows binaries on Linux/Mac requires Wine
• Building Mac binaries on Windows is not supported
• Building Linux binaries on Windows is not supported for some Linux distributions

Maintenance

Generating icons

After changing source icons, to generate icons in different sizes and formats, run:

npm run generate-icons

Updating global (server) styles

Talk frontend depends on the global Nextcloud server styles. To manually get them run:

# node ./scripts/fetch-server-styles.mjs <VERSION>, for example
node ./scripts/fetch-server-styles.mjs stable29

📦 Packaging distributions

# 🐧 Linux (x64)
npm run package:linux

# 🍏 macOS (universal)
npm run package:mac
# 🍏 macOS (separate x64 and arm64)
npm run package:mac:arm64
npm run package:mac:x64

# 🪟 Windows (win32-x64)
npm run package:windows

✈️ Release

1. Create release/vX.Y.Z branch.
2. Update CHANGELOG.md.
   1. If a built-in Talk version is to be changed - add a note:

      ### Build-in Talk update
      
      Built-in Talk in binaries is updated to $(VERSION) Talk changelog: https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

3. Update package.json:
   • For minor update:

     npm version minor

   • For patch update:

     npm version patch

4. Create a release PR.
5. Merge the release PR.
6. Create and push a tag:

   git tag -a v$(version) -m "Tagging the $(version) release."
   git push origin v$(version)
   git push releases v$(version)

7. Draft a new release on GitHub in nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop
   1. Add release title: v$(version) - Talk v$(talkVersion), e.g. v0.10.0 - Talk v17.1.0-rc.1
   2. Choose a tag
   3. Add the respective CHANGELOG.md section
   4. Use the Generate release notes button and wrap put the result into

      ## What's Changed
      
      <details>
        <!-- Generated content -->
      </details>

8. Draft a new release on GitHub in nextcloud/talk-desktop
   1. Copy everything from the previous step
   2. Add:

      > 📥 Download Binaries on https://github.com/nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop/releases/tag/v$(version)

9. Package release on each platform separately:

   npm run release:package

10. Upload packages to the GitHub Releases on nextcloud-releases/talk-desktop
11. Publish both releases on GitHub Releases

👥 Contribution Guidelines

See: https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed#contribution-guidelines