Flying Paper

A Telegram client built with GTK4 and libadwaita.

Under development — early stage, contributions welcome.

Dependencies

• peel — C++ GObject bindings (https://gitlab.gnome.org/bugaevc/peel)
• gtk4 — ≥ 4.0
• libadwaita — ≥ 1.5
• gdk-pixbuf — ≥ 2.0
• TDLib — Telegram Database Library (with C++ headers)
• sqlite3, openssl, zlib

Building

1. Install dependencies

# Fedora
dnf install meson gcc-c++ gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel gdk-pixbuf2-devel \
  sqlite-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel tdlib-devel

# Debian/Ubuntu
apt install meson g++ libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-dev \
  libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libtd-dev

2. Build and install peel

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/bugaevc/peel.git
cd peel
meson setup build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

3. Get Telegram API credentials

Register your application at https://my.telegram.org to obtain an API ID and API hash.

4. Configure and build

git clone https://github.com/your-username/flying-paper.git
cd flying-paper
meson setup build -Dtelegram_app_id=YOUR_API_ID -Dtelegram_app_hash=YOUR_API_HASH
ninja -C build

5. Run

./build/flying-paper

6. Install system-wide

sudo ninja -C build install

License

Flying Paper is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.