DiscordQt

A Discord desktop client powered by Node.JS and NodeGui. It offers a significantly less resource-consuming experience comparing to the official Electron-based desktop client thanks to native UI rendering instead of a Chromium rendering engine.

Download for Windows, Linux and macOS

Currently macOS builds are broken. Looking for Windows and macOS maintainers to configure builds and implement features.

Screenshot

Arch Linux and derivatives

This application is also available in Arch User Repository (AUR): discord-qt-appimage

Building from sources

Node.JS v10+ is required to build.

git clone https://github.com/ruslang02/discord-qt
cd discord-qt/
npm install
npm start

Configuration

In order to run this application you must obtain a Discord user token (how-to guide). You can configure your user accounts, as well as other settings in the Settings screen.

Plugins

Plugins should be located in ~/.config/discord-qt/plugins and represent itself as an npm-like package with discord-qt and plugin keywords placed in package.json. Currently available plugins:

mpris-dqt-plugin

Fonts

By default, the application uses Source Sans Pro font. However, if you want an even more seamless experience, you need to obtain a copy of Whitney fonts (commercial fonts used by Discord) and put them into /assets/fonts folder. In order to activate them, uncomment line with Whitley font in /src/windows/RootWindow.scss and rebuild.

Notice

Discord's Terms of Service do not explictly prohibit the usage of third-party clients, however we can not guarantee that accounts using this application will not be disabled. DiscordQt does its best to only replicate official client's functionality. Authors of DiscordQt discourage usage and modification of this project's source code in the ways that may violate service's Terms of Service.

License

GPL 3.0

ruslang02 / discord-qt

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