Dino is a fork of Dino, a modern XMPP/Jabber client written in Vala using GTK , which includes a few relatively minor but important quality-of-life features.

It was created due to upstream project's maintainers being seemingly unwilling to accept PRs from the community. As of March 2024, there are over 50 PRs pending, most of which are silently ignored.

Some of the features that Dino implements:

• Windows support
• Chat history "scroll-to-load" (both for 1-on-1 chats and MUCs), much like Conversations and Gajim
• Forced MAM sync for MUCs
• Password change via GUI
• Some additional QoL-features

What's currently in the works:

• Migrate build to Meson
• Fixes for sound notifications on KDE and some GTK-based platforms
• MacOS support for Mac silicon

Dino is currently to be considered an alpha-quality product. Please open an issue or send a PR if you find or fix any issues.

• Linux (flatpaks are targeted for Ubuntu 22.04 )
• Windows 10\11

We only support 64 bit platforms.

Have a look at our releases.

Make sure to install all dependencies.

./configure
make
build/dino

• Install and configure the MSYS2 package;
• Go to MINGW64 environment;
• Clone project:

  git clone https://github.com/mxlgv/dino && cd dino

• Run the script to install dependencies:

  ./build-win64.sh --prepare

• Start the build (the builded distribution is available in the windows-installer/dist-win64 folder):

  ./build-win64.sh

Note: the build script has some other options, their description can be found using the --help.

Before this, you must build the project according to the instructions above. It's worth making sure that windows-installer/dist-win64 is not empty. Now you should run:

./build-win64.sh --build-installer

• Original project's website.
• Dino's chat room [email protected] (please don't post there any issues related to this fork!)
• The upstream project's wiki provides additional information.

• Pull requests are welcome!
• Look at how to debug Dino before you report a bug.
• Help translating Dino into your language.

We'd like to thank all of the contributors whom provided the PRs used in this project.

We also recognise the previous efforts of LAGonauta without whom Windows build wouldn't be available.

Dino , a modern XMPP/Jabber client software based on Dino
Copyright (C) 2016-2023 Dino contributors
Copyright (C) 2024 Dino  contributors

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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