Neuland!

About

Neuland is a Tox chat client for the GNOME desktop. It is not officially part of GNOME or Tox. Neuland is written in C and still in an early stage of development. There has not been a release yet; if you want to test Neuland you have to build it from git.

Contributors are welcome!

For Tox see https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore.

For GNOME see https://www.gnome.org.

Current Status

Neuland is not ready for normal usage yet. It is very likely that it has bugs that destroy your data or your system. Therefore, you should only use it if you want to contribute and make it better!

DONE Items

• Sending contact requests
• Receiving and accepting contact requests
• Deleting contacts
• Basic chat
• File transfer

TODO Items

• .desktop file
• Settings (Neuland doesn’t save anything at all yet, it merely uses toxcore’s save function to load and save toxcore’s data.)
• Chat log
• Support for Avatars
• Audio support
• Video support
• And much more …

Building Neuland from Source

Requirements

• toxcore (git master branch)
• gtk+-3.14

Building and installing

Neuland uses Autotools. Compile and install it from a fresh git checkout with:

$ ./autogen.sh && make && make install

If you are using custom locations you can set PKG_CONFIG_PATH and pass the usual Autotools configure options such as –prefix to autogen.sh (they will be passed on to ./configure).

Launching Neuland

For safety reasons Neuland uses its own configuration file by default, which is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tox/data.neuland. If you want Neuland to use your default tox configuration file instead, you can specify it on the command line:

$ neuland ~/.config/tox/data

Passing multiple configuration files to neuland will open a separate Neuland window for each configuration file; this is useful for testing. For example:

$ neuland ~/.config/tox/my_test_data{1,2}

will open one window for my_test_data1 and a second one for my_test_data2.