bhspitmonkey/hipchat-electron

A desktop HipChat client based on the official web client using Electron

HipChat Electron

An Electron wrapper for the HipChat web client.

This client is unofficial and not affiliated with HipChat or Atlassian.

Download

Downloads are available on the Releases page.

Features

• Remembers which HipChat instance you use
• Opens links in your default browser
• Minimizes to a tray icon
• Desktop notifications
• Enhanced keyboard shortcuts

Additional keyboard shortcuts

(The shortcuts built into HipChat should work too, except when overridden by your OS.)

• Ctrl+N: Start a new chat
• Ctrl+PgUp: Navigate up one room
• Ctrl+PgDn: Navigate down one room
• Ctrl+W: Close the active conversation
• Ctrl+G: Go to next room with unread messages
• Ctrl+Q: Quit application

Build and run from source

1. Checkout this repository and install dependencies

    $ git checkout https://github.com/BHSPitMonkey/hipchat-electron
    $ cd hipchat-electron
    $ npm install
   

2. Start the application

    $ npm start
   

hipchat-electron's Issues

Add Ubuntu launcher actions

See https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/desktop-environment-integration.md#unity-launcher-shortcuts-linux

Possible actions could be "New Chat", and/or maybe finding a way to replace the builtin "Quit" with an actual "Quit" (instead of just closing the main menu).

Depends on #1.

Could not copy link to file

I could not copy a link to file that was sent to me. You can only download it, and context menu to copy the link is not available.
Had to use original web version of Hipchat to copy the link.

Error When Opening Links

Thanks for creating this, it's a nice alternative to the (crappy) official Linux client.

When using "npm run pack" or "npm run dist", the following error occurs when trying to open links:

Uncaught Exception:
Error: ENOENT, node_modules/open/vendor/xdg-open "https:/www.google.ca/" not found in /home/r.clancy/store/github/hipchat-electron/dist/HipChat Electron-linux-x64/resources/app.asar
    at notFoundError (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:109:13)
    at Object.module.(anonymous function) [as execFile] (ELECTRON_ASAR.js:166:9)
    at exports.exec (child_process.js:111:18)
    at open (/home/r.clancy/store/github/hipchat-electron/dist/HipChat Electron-linux-x64/resources/app.asar/node_modules/open/lib/open.js:58:10)
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/home/r.clancy/store/github/hipchat-electron/dist/HipChat Electron-linux-x64/resources/app.asar/main.js:305:7)
    at emitMany (events.js:127:13)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:201:7)
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/home/r.clancy/store/github/hipchat-electron/dist/HipChat Electron-linux-x64/resources/electron.asar/browser/guest-window-manager.js:91:16)
    at emitMany (events.js:127:13)
    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:201:7)

I see the note about no proper packages yet, just making note of this issue - all the other basic functionality I've tried when doing the packaging seems to work.

Use context isolation

Implement singleton behavior

App should detect existing instance at launch and use some kind of IPC to tell it to show itself, and then close the new instance.

show indicator unread message

Desktop notification is nice but if would be great if there indicator if there is unread message. Like the icon of slack if there is unread message there is a red dot in there logo.