@philbaker1 the fact that so much in-person chat at FOSS conferences happens in Telegram has always rubbed me the wrong way. For quite some time, I didn’t have a Telegram account, but I wouldn’t get invited out to dinner or drinks, or wouldn’t know what was happening at or around the conference.
Hopefully this serves as a wake-up call as to why relying on a centralized, unencrypted, proprietary messaging service for critical organizing is not acceptable.
@cassidy I think Telegram won hearts of many Linux users due to their really good desktop app. Let that be a memento for others (I'm looking at you, @signalapp) that desktop apps with native experience matter. @philbaker1
@sesivany @cassidy @signalapp @philbaker1 IMO Telegram Desktop is neither a "really good" app, nor a native one. I mean, it's not a web app wrapped into Electron, that much is true, but that's such a low bar.
There's https://github.com/melix99/telegrand, where they're developing an actual native GNOME app, but it's nowhere near complete yet.
@bugaevc @sesivany @cassidy @signalapp @philbaker1
Telegram Desktop is based on QtWidgets (not even QML).
GNOME ≠ the whole Linux/Freedesktop platform.
I wish GNOME snobbery was a stereotype but if you call "native" only what uses GNOME tech and guidelines...
