Mirage

Features ⬥ Installation ⬥ Configuration & Theming ⬥ Screenshots

A fancy, customizable, keyboard-operable Matrix chat client for encrypted and decentralized communication.
Written in Qt/QML + Python with nio, currently in alpha.

Currently Implemented Features

Interface

• Fluid interface that adapts to any window size
• Toggleable compact mode
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts for (almost) everything, including filtering/switching rooms, scrolling, sending files...
• Versatile theming system, properties can refer to each other and have any valid ECMAScript 7 expression as values
  • Comes by default with dark and transparent themes

Accounts

• Multiple accounts in one client
• Set your display name and profile picture
• Import/export E2E key files
• Inspect, rename, manually verify and sign out one or multiple sessions

Rooms

• Create, join, leave and forget rooms
• Send, accept and refuse invites
• Edit the room's name, topic, invite requirement, guest access and enable E2E
• Kick and ban users
• Unread message and highlight counters
• Sending read receipts to mark rooms as read

Messages

• Send and receive E2E encrypted messages
• Send and receive emote messages (e.g. /me reads attentively)
• Receive notice (bot) messages
• Send markdown formatted messages
  • Additional syntax for coloring text, e.g. <red>(Some text...) - SVG/CSS color names, and #hex codes can be used
• Send and receive normal or E2E encrypted files
• Client-side Matrix & HTTP URL image previews, including animated GIF
• User ID, display names, room ID and room aliases mentions
• Individual and mass message removal
• Sending rich replies

Presence

• Typing notifications

Installation

See INSTALL.md

Configuration & Theming

The config file can be found at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mirage/settings.json, or ~/.config/mirage/settings.json.

For Flatpak users, this will be ~/.var/app/io.github.mirukana.mirage/config/mirage instead.

The config folder where accounts.json and settings.json is located can be overriden by setting the MIRAGE_CONFIG_DIR environment variable.

The user data folder where themes, encryption data and interface states are saved can be overriden with MIRAGE_DATA_DIR.

The cache folder where downloaded files and thumbnails are saved can be overriden with MIRAGE_CACHE_DIR.

The theme setting can be:

• The filename of a built-in theme (Midnight.qpl or Glass.qpl)
• The filename of a custom theme at $XDG_DATA_HOME/mirage/themes, ~/.local/share/mirage/themes, or ~/.var/app/io.github.mirukana.mirage/data/mirage/themes (Flatpak)

A default theme from this repository can be copied to use as a base and edit, for example:

    cp mirage/src/themes/Midnight.qpl \
       "${XDG_DATA_HOME:-$HOME/.local/share}/mirage/themes/MyTheme.qpl"

Or for Flatpak users:

    cp mirage/src/themes/Midnight.qpl \
       ~/.var/app/io.github.mirukana.mirage/data/mirage/themes/MyTheme.qpl

The config setting theme would need to be set to MyTheme.qpl in this case.

Theme files are nested-by-indentations sections of properties and values.
Properties are declared as <type> <name>: <value>.
Values can be any JavaScript (ECMAScript 7) expressions.

Most of the properties are of type color. Their values, if not just refering to another property, can be expressed with a:

• SVG/CSS color name string, e.g. "blue"
• Hexadecimal code string, e.g. "#fff" or "#cc0000"
• RGBA value, using the Qt.rgba(0-1, 0-1, 0-1, 0-1) function
• HSLA value, using the Qt.hsla(0-1, 0-1, 0-1, 0-1) function
• HSVA value, using the Qt.hsva(0-1, 0-1, 0-1, 0-1) function
• HSLUV value, using the hsluv(0-360, 0-100, 0-100, 0-1) function. This is the prefered method used throughout the default theme files (why? see this and that)

If you just want to change the background picture, or use a gradient/simple color instead, search for the ui: section in your text editor.

With Alt+Shift+R by default, the config and theme can be reloaded without restarting the app.

Warnings:

• API currently unstable: theme properties are often renamed, added or deleted.
• The file format for both config and themes will soon change
• The current file format forces all theme to have all properties defined, instead of being able to only specify the ones to override from the default theme.

GUI settings will also be implemented in the future.

Screenshots