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tl;dr :

  • Hexchat IRC client app development stopped
  • Linux Mint team was building IRC client to replace Hexchat
  • The team tried Matrix and liked it
  • Linux Mint’s communication channels are moving from IRC to Matrix
  • The desktop app will be named Matrix to avoid confusion
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[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

web-based Element Matrix client

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

And I was hoping there was an alternative to fractal as a nativ app..

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

KDE's NeoChat is written in Qt if I'm not mistaken

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

🫡nice, gotta look Hope it supports E2E encryption

[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"some aspects of End-to-End Encryption are supported"

https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/neochat/

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Whatever that means 😂

[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

I found it to be very buggy, usually had UI rendering issues

[–] barbara@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And I was hoping they fork fractal such that they can both profit from each other

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Even better 😄

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago

They might build one of those later