Facebook Chat. Refined.
Polonium is a better desktop Facebook chat client, with a resizable chat window, desktop notifications, and more. It's somewhat similar to (and inspired by) the Mac-only Goofy app.
Polonium is currently available for 64-bit Windows and 64-bit Linux.
- Eggplant button.
- Native desktop notifications for Facebook messages.
- Resizable chat window with all Facebook Messaging functionality.
- Custom styling for Facebook UI.
- Easily extendable with additional functionality.
- Distraction free messaging on the desktop.
First, make sure you have all the dependencies by running the following in the project root folder. The following should work for Debain-based Linux distributions:
sudo apt-get install npm nodejs nodejs-legacy
npm install # install all the project dependencies
Now build the project anytime by executing the following in the project root folder. This will generate binaries and packages for all supported platforms:
./build.sh
Output files can be found under the dist folder.
To directly run the application from the source, just run the following in the project root folder:
nw
Polonium is copyright Anthony Zhang, 2015, and is licensed under the MIT license. A copy is available in the LICENSE file in the project root folder.
NWJS is not affiliated with Polonium, and is also licensed under the MIT license.