Sailtrix

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Sailtrix is a matrix client for SailfishOS supporting end-to-end encryption among many other features. Currently in beta state and is intended to become more feature-rich over time.

Features

• Logging in with username and password
• Reading the past messages in a room (currently limited to loading 30 at a time)
• Messages with basic formatting can be read (bold, italic, etc)
• Timestamps of messages are displayed
• Sending messages
• Sending messages in reply
• Editing messages
• Deleting messages
• Starting direct messages
• Ignoring and unignoring users
• Viewing and downloading of images
• Viewing of audio and video
• Display of member events
• Downloading files
• Sending files
• Accepting invites
• Public room directory
• Creating Rooms
• Sorting by Activity or Alphabetically
• Launching Matrix.to and matrix:// links (at present, you need to use the "Nheko" button at Matrix.to)
• Notifications
• Basic end-to-end encryption support (Late Alpha State - please do not use when security is important, it is more than a proof of concept but not in a beta state yet)
• Favorite Rooms
• View Source
• Experimental emoji verification (New)
• Rooms search (New)
• All sensitive information including messages are encrypted at rest with Sailfish Secrets

Sailtrix features an encrypted message cache to load only the newest messages when you open a room, improving its performace significantly. However, it can corrupt at times, and may cause strange behavior, such as the wrong avatars being displayed. It is easy to clear this cache in the settings.

There are currently many features that are not implemented. Please see the GitLab issue tracker for an incomplete list. Feel free to add to it if you want a feature to be implemented or a bug to be fixed.

Sailtrix has been tested to be working on Sailfish 3.4 and newer.

A note on notifications

Sailtrix >= 1.3 supports notifications. They may eat battery as it causes the phone to wake up every 30 seconds - you can change this interval in the settings. You can also disable them there. Every time you restart your device, you will need to launch Sailtrix to start the notifications. Then, you can close the app.

Emoji verification instructions

Currently, emoji verification is highly experimental. It can only be started from another device, such as Element, and you must be on the Rooms list to receive the emoji verification flow.

Development

Development status and source code are available on GitLab (https://gitlab.com/HengYeDev/harbour-sailtrix) - feel free to fork and submit merge requests.

Support

I'm not always available for support and it may take a few hours or days for me to respond. Discussion will take place in the Sailtrix matrix room:

• #sailtrix:matrix.org

Updating

Please note that to prevent strange occurrences, one should execute "killall harbour-sailtrix" to stop the daemons before updating.

Legal notice

The software may be subject to the U.S. export control laws and regulations and by downloading the software the user certifies that he/she/it is authorized to do so in accordance with those export control laws and regulations.

Sailtrix is used at your own risk. The author does not take legal responsiblity for problems such as missed messages.