Sunstone 0.1.0 — native Linux nostr client

2026-06-16 18:56:01 -07:00
3 changed files with 48 additions and 25 deletions
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ Sunstone.zip

 # Packaging build artifacts
 /dist/
-/packaging/arch/*.pkg.tar.zst
 /packaging/arch/src/
 /packaging/arch/pkg/

-# Release artifacts (anywhere in the tree)
+# Prebuilt packages — distributed via the Releases page, never committed
+*.pkg.tar.zst
 *.deb
 *.flatpak

@@ -1,26 +1,31 @@
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="crates/sunstone-gtk/assets/sunstone-mark.svg" alt="Sunstone" width="120">
+</p>
+
 # Sunstone

 A native Linux desktop [nostr](https://nostr.com) client — GTK4 + libadwaita,
 written in Rust on [rust-nostr](https://github.com/rust-nostr/nostr).

-Social feed, long-form articles, live streams, video, DMs, groups, calendar,
-and zaps. Outbox (gossip) model on by default. Feeds are chronological.
+Follows feed, long-form articles, live streams, video, DMs, groups, calendar,
+and zaps. Outbox (gossip) model on by default.
+
+> Status: Im still adding things as I see fit. Most things should be stable. There will be bugs and Ill try not to break shit with updates. 
+> I want add music notes and expand on that side of things. 

-> Status: usable daily-driver, pre-1.0. Things move fast and may break.

 ## Features

-**Identity & keys**
+**Login**
 - Local `nsec`, stored NIP-49 encrypted (`ncryptsec`) behind a passphrase
- NIP-46 remote signer (bunker) support
- NIP-05 verification
+- NIP-46 remote signer (bunker) support 

 **Feed & posting**
 - Following feed + browse any relay; NIP-65 relay lists with gossip/outbox routing
- Notes, replies and threads (NIP-01/10) with inline `@`-mention typeahead
+- Notes, replies and threads. 
 - Quote reposts and reposts (NIP-18); reactions incl. NIP-30 custom emoji (NIP-25)
- Polls (NIP-88), highlights (NIP-84)
- Content warnings (NIP-36), deletions (NIP-09), comments (NIP-22)
+- Polls (NIP-88)
+- Content warnings (NIP-36), deletions (NIP-09). 
 - Live note preview, broadcast to relays, seen-on-relays, and copy raw JSON

 **Articles** — long-form (NIP-23): discovery (Following / second-degree Network /
@@ -30,7 +35,6 @@ with system spellcheck, and your published + draft library.
 **Media & live**
 - Live streams with HLS playback + NIP-53 chat; adaptive quality, audio-only mode
 - Video (NIP-71); inline feed video; picture-in-picture
- Media upload via NIP-96 / Blossom, NIP-92 `imeta`

 **Zaps** — NIP-57 lightning zaps over a NIP-47 (NWC) wallet.

@@ -41,13 +45,13 @@ with system spellcheck, and your published + draft library.
 **Organize** — NIP-51 bookmarks, NIP-37 encrypted drafts, time-sectioned and
 grouped notifications (replies / mentions / reactions / reposts / zaps / poll votes).

-**Proxy** — relay and media traffic can be routed through a SOCKS5/Tor proxy.
+**Proxy** — relay and media traffic can be routed through a SOCKS5/Tor proxy. I plan on adding internal TOR and I2P support soon. 

 ## Install

-There are no distro repositories yet. Prebuilt packages are built by hand and
-attached to the [Releases page](https://git.utn.lol/enki/sunstone/releases) —
-download one, or build from source.
+Download a prebuilt package for your distro from the
+[Releases page](https://git.utn.lol/enki/sunstone/releases), then install the
+downloaded file — or build from source.

 ### Flatpak (any distro)

@@ -67,7 +71,11 @@ sudo apt install ./sunstone_0.1.0-1_amd64.deb

 ### Arch Linux

-No AUR package yet — build it from the bundled recipe:
+```sh
+sudo pacman -U sunstone-0.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
+```
+
+Or build it yourself:

 ```sh
 cd packaging/arch
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Build a native Arch package (.pkg.tar.zst) from the current git HEAD, without
-# needing a published forge release. Uses the same recipe as ./PKGBUILD but
-# sources a tarball of the local checkout instead of downloading from the forge.
+# Build a native Arch package (.pkg.tar.zst) from the CURRENT WORKING TREE
+# (the files on disk right now), without needing a published forge release.
+#
+# This repo is synced across machines with Syncthing, so the on-disk tree —
+# not git HEAD — is the source of truth. We snapshot the working directory
+# (minus VCS metadata and heavy build/output dirs) and run makepkg on it, so
+# uncommitted/unpushed changes are included.
 #
 # Usage:  packaging/arch/build-local.sh
 # Output: dist/sunstone-<ver>-<rel>-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst  (in the repo root)
@@ -9,7 +13,7 @@
 # Install the result with:  sudo pacman -U dist/sunstone-*.pkg.tar.zst
 set -euo pipefail

-repo_root="$(git -C "$(dirname "$0")" rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
+repo_root="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/../.." && pwd)"
 pkgbuild="$repo_root/packaging/arch/PKGBUILD"
 ver="$(awk -F\" '/^version = / {print $2; exit}' "$repo_root/Cargo.toml")"

@@ -17,11 +21,22 @@ distdir="$repo_root/dist"
 workdir="$(mktemp -d)"
 trap 'rm -rf "$workdir"' EXIT

-echo ">> Packaging sunstone $ver from $(git -C "$repo_root" rev-parse --short HEAD)"
+echo ">> Packaging sunstone $ver from the working tree at $repo_root"

-# tracked files only, extracted under sunstone/ to match _srcdir in PKGBUILD.
-git -C "$repo_root" archive --format=tar.gz --prefix="sunstone/" \
-  -o "$workdir/sunstone-$ver.tar.gz" HEAD
+# Snapshot the working tree under sunstone/ (matches _srcdir in PKGBUILD),
+# excluding VCS metadata and heavy build/output dirs we don't want compiled in.
+tar czf "$workdir/sunstone-$ver.tar.gz" \
+  --transform 's,^\./,sunstone/,' \
+  --exclude='./.git' \
+  --exclude='./.claude' \
+  --exclude='./target' \
+  --exclude='./build-dir' \
+  --exclude='./.flatpak-builder' \
+  --exclude='./dist' \
+  --exclude='./design_handoff_*' \
+  --exclude='./*.flatpak' \
+  --exclude='./Sunstone.zip' \
+  -C "$repo_root" .

 # Local PKGBUILD: pin pkgver + swap the forge source for the local tarball.
 sed -e "s|^pkgver=.*|pkgver=$ver|" \