Hammond

A Podcast Client for GNOME written in Rust.

Quick start

Hammond can be built and run with Gnome Builder >= 3.28.

Get Builder here

Broken Feeds

Found a feed that does not work in Hammond? Please open an issue and choose the BrokenFeed template so we will know and fix it!

Getting in Touch

If you have any questions regarding the use or development of Hammond, want to discuss design or simply hang out, please join us in #hammond on irc.gnome.org. or matrix.

Note:

There isn't much documentation yet, so you will probably have question about parts of the Code.

Building

Flatpak

Flatpak is the reccomended way of building and installing Hammond.

Building a Flatpak

Download the org.gnome.Hammond.json flatpak manifest from this repo.

# Add flathub repo
flatpak --user remote-add flathub --if-not-exists https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
# Add the gnome-nightly repo
flatpak --user remote-add gnome-nightly --if-not-exists https://sdk.gnome.org/gnome-nightly.flatpakrepo
# Install the gnome-nightly Sdk and Platform runtim
flatpak --user install gnome-nightly org.gnome.Sdk org.gnome.Platform
# Install the required rust-stable extension from flathub
flatpak --user install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.rust-stable
flatpak-builder --user --repo=repo hammond org.gnome.Hammond.json --force-clean

To install the resulting flatpak you can do:

flatpak build-bundle repo hammond.flatpak org.gnome.Hammond
flatpak install --user --bundle hammond.flatpak

Building from soure

git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/hammond.git
cd hammond/
meson --prefix=/usr build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Dependencies

• Rust stable 1.26 or later along with cargo.
• Gtk+ 3.22 or later
• Meson
• A network connection

Offline build are possible too, but cargo-vendor would have to be setup first

Debian/Ubuntu

apt-get update -yqq
apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends build-essential
apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends rustc cargo libgtk-3-dev meson

Fedora

dnf install -y rust cargo gtk3-devel glib2-devel openssl-devel sqlite-devel meson

If you happen to build it on other distributions please let me know the names of the corresponding libraries. Feel free to open a MR or an Issue to note it.

Contributing

There alot of thins yet to be done.

If you want to contribute, please check the Contributions Guidelines.

You can start by taking a look at Issues or by opening a New issue.

There are also some minor tasks tagged with TODO: and FIXME: in the source code.

Overview

$ tree -d
├── screenshots         # png's used in the README.md
├── hammond-data        # Storate related stuff, SQLite, XDG setup, RSS Parser.
│   ├── migrations      # Diesel SQL migrations.
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── src
│   └── tests
│       └── feeds       # Raw RSS Feeds used for tests.
├── hammond-downloader  # Really basic, Really crappy downloader.
│   └── src
├── hammond-gtk         # The Gtk+ Client
│   ├── resources       # GResources folder
│   │   └── gtk         # Contains the glade.ui files.
│   └── src
│       ├── stacks      # Contains the gtk Stacks that hold all the different views.
│       └── widgets     # Contains custom widgets such as Show and Episode.

A note about the project's name

The project was named after Allan Moore's character Evey Hammond from the graphic novel V for Vendetta.

It has nothing to do with the horrible headlines on the news.

Acknowledgments

Hammond's design is heavily insired by GNOME Music and Vocal.

We also copied some elements from GNOME News.

And almost the entirety of the build system is copied from the Fractal project.