Whalebird

Whalebird is a mastodon client for desktop application.

Feature

• An interface like slack
• Notify to desktop
• Streaming
• Many keyboard shortcuts
• Manage multiple accounts

Shortcuts

	Mac	Linux, Windows
Toot, Reply	Cmd + Enter	Ctrl + Enter
Change accounts	Cmd + 1, 2, 3...	Ctrl + 1, 2, 3...
Jump to another timeline	Cmd + k	Ctrl + k
Open new toot window	Cmd + n	Ctrl + n

Install

Mac

Or you can download .dmg from release page.

So on, you can install from Homebrew:

$ brew update
$ brew cask install whalebird

✨ Thanks to @singingwolfboy for adding it to homebrew-cask.

Linux

You can download .deb or .rpm from release page. If you do not want to use package manager, please download .tar.bz2 file and docompress it.

Or please install the app from snapcraft.io.

$ sudo snap install whalebird

Windows

You can download .exe from release page.

Development

We'd love you to contribute to Whalebird.

Minimum requirements for development

• Node.js greater than or equal version 8.9.0
• npm or yarn

Getting started

# clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop.git
$ cd whalebird-desktop

# install dependencies
$ npm install

# serve with hot reload at localhost:9080
$ npm run dev

How to add new language

1. First, please prepare translation, and translation missing file for your language.
2. Next, add your language to constants like French.
3. Finally, add your language at here.

If there is something unknown, please refer this pull request: https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop/pull/502

Release

Binary

When you build release packages, please use electron-builder.

# for linux
$ npm run build:linux

# for mac
# This command automatically loads the Developer ID Application certificate from your keychain.
$ npm run build:mac

AppStore

Please prepare certificates on your Apple developer console. The following keys are required:

• Mac App Distribution: 3rd Party Mac Developer Application: NAME (TEAM_ID)
• Mac Installer Distribution: 3rd Party Mac Developer Installer: NAME (TEAM_ID)

and register your KeyChain.

Then, create a Mac App ID like org.whalebird.desktop.

$ npm run build:mas

# This command automatically loads the certificates from you keychain.
$ ./appStore.sh

After that, the .pkg file is created under ./packages.

Please upload the .pkg to App Store using Application Loader in Xcode.

Snapcraft

First, please prepare snapcraft command.

$ brew install snapcraft

And prepare docker environment which is used in snapcraft building.

Build app for linux.

$ npm run build:linux

And upload.

$ snapcraft push build/whalebird_1.0.0_amd64.snap --release stable

License

The software is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.