Mattermost Desktop (beta)

Native desktop application for Mattermost running on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Originally created as "electron-mattermost" by Yuya Ochiai. Developed using Electron.

Features

Desktop integration

• Tabs for multiple teams across multiple servers
• Desktop Notifications
  • Windows 10: Toast
  • Windows 7-8.1: Balloon (fallback behavior, so lesser support)
  • OS X: Notification Center
  • Linux: libnotify
• Badges for unread channels and mentions
• Installs as native application

Pre-packaged

You don't have to install any other software. Packages are available on the releases page.

Usage

Installation

Detailed guides are available at docs/setup.md.

1. Download and unarchive a file from release page.
2. Launch Mattermost in the unarchived folder.
3. After first launching, please input name and URL for your Mattermost team. For example, myteam : https://mattermost.example.com/team.

Quit

Ctrl or Command + Q to quit.

Configuration

You can show the dialog from menu bar. (Please press Alt key to show the menu bar if it disappers.)

Configuration will be saved into Electron's userData directory:

• %APPDATA%\Mattermost on Windows
• ~/Library/Application Support/Mattermost on OS X
• ~/.config/Mattermost on Linux

When you upgrade from electron-mattermost, please copy config.json from electron-mattermost. Otherwise, you have to configure again.

Proxy

Normally, the application will follow your system settings to use proxy. Or you can set proxy by following command line options.

• --proxy-server=<SERVER>:<PORT>
• --proxy-pac-url=<URL>

Testing and Development

Node.js is required to test this app.

Simple testing

1. Clone or download the source code.
2. Run npm install.
3. Run npm start.

When you edit src/** files, please execute npm run build before npm start.

Development

npm run watch

Reload the app automatically when you have saved source codes.

npm test

Run tests with Mocha.

Packaging

You can package this app with following commands. Packages will be created in release directory.

$ npm run package (for your platform)
$ npm run package:windows (Requires Windows or Wine)
$ npm run package:osx (Requires OS X or Linux)
$ npm run package:linux
$ npm run package:all (Packages for all platform)

Create a windows installer with the following command. It will appear in the release\windows-installer directory.

$ npm run installer

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.