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There's a desktop application?
Yes, and it's quite good. Apart from this.
I have a couple problems with it aside from being electron.
On linux, whether it is a native package or flatpak. I have to launch it twice for it to open.
I can't restore chats from my phone to the desktop application which frankly sucks. It makes sense if they don't wanna have to store extra data on their servers, but at least let the backups that I manually take on my phone be usable on the desktop. Not having the majority of your conversations from before you linked the desktop app is a pain in the arse.
I never have to launch twice on flatpak.
And I only keep conversations for 2 to 4 weeks so starting over doesn't bother me. Sorry if that doesn't work for you too.
I don't do temporary conversations, but this is the open issue on the flatpak https://github.com/flathub/org.signal.Signal/issues/454. The thing is, I'm having the same issue as the flatpak even though I'm not using the flatpak.
That sucks and they need to fix it. Still out hasn't happened here yet. Are you on Gnome desktop environment?
Nope, I'm on KDE.
I wonder if it's only happening on KDE? Either way, I'm sure it needs to be corrected.
That would certainly be a weird one.