Something For Reddit

A simple Reddit client for GNOME, built for touch, mouse and VIM keyboards.

Features

• Touchscreen tested interface
• VIM style keybindings
• View subreddits, comments and user pages
• Vote on comments and links, write replies
• Integrated WebKit2 browser for viewing links
• Multi-account support

Packages

Distro	Command	Info
Fedora	dnf copr enable samtoday/something-for-reddit; dnf install something-for-reddit	https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/samtoday/something-for-reddit/
Archlinux	yaourt -S something-for-reddit-git	https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/something-for-reddit-git/
openSUSE		https://software.opensuse.org/package/something-for-reddit

Installing

I did this ages ago, so I don't really remember.

1. Install gnome-common
2. Install the python3-arrow and python3-markdown
3. Install libglib2.0-dev,libgtk-3-dev,libsoup2.4-dev,libjson-glib-dev
4. Install a SCSS compiler (eg. rubygem-sass on Fedora). This is very important because otherwise it will fail to build. For Ubuntu run the following commands : sudo apt-get install rubygems ruby-dev sudo su -c "gem install sass" sudo gem install sass
5. Install the package gobject_introspection by using the command sudo apt install gobject-introspection

Installing libglib2.0_50

1. Install the package libffi-dev,libmount-dev
2. Download the package from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+files/glib2.0_2.50.0.orig.tar.xz
3. Extract it using the command tar vvfj glib2.0*
4. Follow the installation procedure given in the file INSTALL

Installing gtk+3.22

1. Install the packages `libpango1.0-dev libatk1.0-dev
2. Download the package for gtk3+ http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gtk+/3.22/gtk+-3.22.1.tar.xz
3. Extract it using the command tar xvfj gtk+-3*
4. Open the directory using the linux command cd and run ./configure --prefix=/opt/gtk
5. If you have two versions of glib installed then set environment variables as PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig and LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
6. make
7. make install

Other requirements

1. Install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev Then you can just install it like any usual program.

2. Download the source code (eg. git clone https://github.com/samdroid-apps/something-for-reddit; cd something-for-reddit)

3. ./autogen.sh

4. make

5. sudo make install

There is a .desktop file, but it is also reddit-is-gtk command

Please report the bugs or deficiencies that you find via Github Issues.

Roadmap

Feel free to contribute and do whatever you want.

Please try and use Flake8!

• Any app icon suggestions/designs are appreciated
  • The current one isn't great at all
• Replace the media previews, integrate them with the comments view
• Use gettext
  • If you are interested in translateing this app, please email me!
• Search all the subreddits on reddit
• Manage subreddits dialog
• Better handle private messages
• Multireddits in the urlbar list
• Mutlireddit add/remove subreddits

Long Term

• Optimise the comments view performance
• Separate the reddit json parsing from the view components
• Support other sites (eg. hackernews)