Month: August 2015

What happened to beta 5? I put it up and forgot to update the blog. In any case, beta 6 is up. Lots of UI improvements. We are nearing a releasable version.

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I’m quite enjoying putting out regular builds as I fix and improve.  The built in updater will notify you of uploads but it is not able to update itself.

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You should see Monal OS X Beta 3 show up in your updaters.  You can also download it below. I’m not sure if sparkle is working  right.

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One of the goals of the current OS X project is to modernize xmpp support on OS X.  The other is to have a modern app, one that embraces new OS X features as they come out.  I have continuity working between OS X and iOS clients.  Starting work on one screen and moving to another is a nice feature that is super convenient and it us unfortunate that more apps other than apple first party don’t support it.

Monal OSX Beta 2 is out. This includes a few UI fixes that annoyed me in the last version. I have also included sparkle for auto updating in these betas so in theory updates should be pushed out on their own going forward.

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Monal 2.7 has been sent to apple for review.

The very first build of Monal for OSX.  This is version 1 build 1. Almost everything works. Searching contacts does not and adding new contacts doesn’t. I’m sure there are many other UI elements I have forgotten. However, I think it is at a point where people can beta test it. I will be monitoring crash logs as they come in. I’m sure there will be plenty. I’ve never distributed Mac apps after gatekeeper was introduced. This is a proper signed application  so anyone should be able to install it.  Let me know if there are any issues.

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Back in February, I toyed around with compiling Monal for OS X. It was an interesting experiment.  It did get me thinking about how well I have or haven’t made my app and whether I could release a Mac app with a proper native UI.   Today I  got a minimally viable OS X client to work — some thing I started long ago and then dropped.  Monal 2.7 onwards will be on the Mac too.   Today, I personally have switched from Adium to Monal.  My first new IM client since 2004.

As you can see below, I decided to go with the iMessage route rather than Adium as I felt it was more modern.  Since this is a modern XMPP client, this will also be the first OS X client to support Carbons and stream resumption. It also has some UI features that I missed in Adium like replying from notification bubbles.  I am also planning on adding Handoff with the iOS client, because why not?  I plan on making this a free  app in the Mac app store when it is ready.  After I complete  the addition of a few more features, I will probably put a zip file up for people to try out.

Amusingly enough Chameleon, the library I used to get it to run on OS X in February  is what Microsoft is using now as their compatibility layer 

I am preparing Monal 2.7 and it will hit test flight beta soon. This is purely a bug fix release that fixes the most prominent crashes. Nothing else new.

I’ve been incredibly busy with real life as of late and that means I haven’t been able to work on Monal. I am scheduling some time in the coming days to fix a bunch of crashing issues and release an update with all the fixes to date.

To make matters worse, my time was wasted by a stupid wordpress hack on this site that I had to address immediately.   Things will be coming back on line slowly.