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Would be hyped if the same was announced for Element Desktop. That one is a resource hungry electron blob if ive ever seen one.
I can heartily recommend Sable!
https://app.sable.moe/
Install instructions for other platforms in https://docs.sable.moe/
Seen it before but havent tried it. Does it support livekit calls i.e. element-call?
Yes, it even supports "watch together style" screensharing with audio!
Nice will give it a go then. Ty :)
After reading the latest matrix weekly, i am afraid i must report that Sable has now also moved to Electron 😭
It stills seems worth using because it has some features that Element doesnt but its still sad.
At least they specifically reconfirmed their "no vibecoding!" stance.
For others that might consider it:
From what ive seen it is missing zero features that are present in element and just adds a lot more on top of that. Generally the UI is faster, cleaner but also more technically transparent in some ways at the same time.
The reason to move to electron was that screensharing doesn't work on Wayland with Tauri.
Also, despite what we all thought we knew about Electron, the app is faster and uses less memory now than when it was built on Tauri.
Well it uses exactly the same as Element now with ~700MB. I think Cinny was like 1/3rd of that when i last tried it.
It's the price we pay for screensharing under Wayland. The maintainers are planning for v3 to be native, since a lot of Rust code is already in-place, but it will be a lot of work to support native code for at least 6 platforms, so they're hoping to raise some more funds before that and preferably have a steady monthly donation budget.
Yeah i get why they do it of course. It just works. If they keep going in a good direction i will set up a recurring donation :)
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
I personally haven't found a single matrix client I like better than Element, sadly. And that is not to say that I like Element, it just works the best for me currently.