Write.as GTK App

A Write.as desktop app that targets all freedesktop.org compliant desktops, e.g. GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, etc; basically everything except Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. It allows you to compose and publish posts to https://write.as/.

For a UI toolkit it uses GTK (where some systems may slightly prefer, say, Qt), but do to the simplicity of the app this shouldn’t be much of a problem to anyone.

Installation

Write.as GTK uses the Meson/Ninja build system, and as such you can install it on any FreeDesktop.Org compatible system using:

mkdir build
cd build
meson ..
ninja
sudo ninja install

This will install the executable file and the metadata required to integrate with those desktops. It also installs metadata to be collected by package repositories which integrate with certain package managers for richer presentation of apps.

Packaging

You can package Write.as GTK for Debian/Apt-based systems by running in this repository’s root directory:

dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc

This’ll give you a .deb file in the parent directory.