Fractal

Fractal is a Matrix messaging app for GNOME written in Rust. Its interface is optimized for collaboration in large groups, such as free software projects.

• Come to talk to us on Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#fractal-gtk:matrix.org
• Main repository: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal/

Build Instructions

You need Meson and Ninja (as well as Rust and Cargo) to build Fractal.

GNU/Linux

meson . _build --prefix=/usr/local
ninja -C _build
ninja -C _build install

macOS

brew install gtk3+ dbus bash
# empirically needs 3.22.19 or later of gtk3+
# ...and run configure as:
/usr/local/bin/bash -c meson . _build --prefix=/usr/local

You may also need to comment out the notification.show block in ./fractal-gtk/src/app.rs as apparently notification.wait_for_action is missing on MacOS.

Supported m.room.message (msgtypes)

msgtypes	Recv	Send
m.text	Done	Done
m.emote	Done	Done
m.notice
m.image	Done	Done
m.file	Done	Done
m.location
m.video	Done	Done
m.audio	Done	Done

Full reference in: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.2.0.html#m-room-message-msgtypes

The origin of Fractal

This project is based on ruma-gtk https://github.com/jplatte/ruma-gtk

Instead of using RUMA Client, Fractal calls directly to the matrix.org REST API.

The first version of this project was called guillotine, based on french revolution, in relation with the Riot client name, but it's a negative name so we decide to change for a math one.

The name Fractal was proposed by Regina Bíró.