Re:Conduit Beta – Matrix chat server
by chrismorgan on Thursday September 02, 2021 @12:03PM
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On the UI side, telegram-desktop does things in a radically different way from typical desktop software, that’s my objection, structuring things in a way that only makes sense on small-screen devices.
The Compose key can be customised via ~/.XCompose. I’m talking about things like U+1F928 FACE WITH ONE EYEBROW RAISED. Anything that has a graphical representation gets mangled.
On the alternatives: I haven’t ever tried much in this space, so I don’t know if there are any that I would consider well-done. Performance is probably the biggest objection to many of them.
The unified-UI battle is long lost. Nowadays, I much prefer a sane style instead of whatever RAD design GNOME/Windows11/etc people have come up with....
> Emoji
IIRC, the compose key uses a limited set of old emojis. I've been using dmenu-wrappers for inserting emojis, like this one: https://github.com/Mange/rofi-emoji
The points you mentioned are minor issues (I know, it adds up) but compare that to the alternatives: Discord, Slack, Element, Whatsapp...Mere starting up those apps and sending a `hi` to someone easily could take ~30 secs
Many times, the sluggish experience in Discord caused me to just ignore joining in my favorite servers and discussions.