Yoda - Browser for Gemini protocol

GTK 4 / Libadwaita client written in Rust

[!IMPORTANT] Project in development!

Features

Interface

• Multi-tab
• Hotkeys
• Bookmarks
• Build-in multimedia support
  • Images
  • Audio
  • Video
• Certificates
• Downloads
• History
• Proxy
• Session
  • Window
    • Size
    • Tabs
      • Pin
      • Page
        • Content (cache)
        • Meta
          • Title
        • Navigation
          • Request
          • History
• User settings

Protocols

• Gemini
  • Status code
    • Success
      • 20
    • Input
      • 10 Input
      • 11 Sensitive input
    • Redirection
      • 30 Temporary
      • 31 Permanent
    • Temporary failure
      • 40 Unspecified condition
      • 41 Server unavailable
      • 42 CGI error
      • 43 Proxy error
      • 44 Slow down
    • Permanent failure
      • 50 General
      • 51 Not found
      • 52 Gone
      • 53 Proxy request refused
      • 59 Bad request
    • Client certificates
      • 60 Certificate requested
      • 61 Certificate not authorized
      • 62 Certificate not valid
  • Gemtext (by ggemtext)
    • Code (inline/multiline)
      • Inline
      • Multiline
        • Alt
      • Syntax highlight* (by syntect)
      • Terminal emulation* (by ansi-parser)
        • foreground
        • background
        • intensity
        • italic
        • underline
        • blink
        • reversed
        • hidden
        • strikethrough
    • Header
      • H1
      • H2
      • H3
    • Link
      • Address
      • Date
      • Alt
    • List
    • Quote
  • Gemfeed
  • Titan
• NEX - useful for networks with build-in encryption (e.g. Yggdrasil)
  • NPS
• Localhost
  • file:// - local file browser
• Request prefix
  • about:
    • config - low-level key/value settings editor
  • download: - save location to file
  • source: - source viewer (by sourceview5)

Media types

Text

• text/gemini
• text/plain

Images

• image/gif
• image/jpeg
• image/png
• image/webp
• image/svg+xml

Audio

• audio/flac
• audio/mpeg
• audio/ogg

Video

Build

Requirements

• Cairo 1.18
• GdkPixBuf 2.42
• Glib 2.80
• Gtk 4.14
• GtkSourceView 5.14
• libadwaita 1.5 (Ubuntu 24.04+)
• libspelling 0.1

Debian

sudo apt install git curl build-essential\
                 libgtk-4-dev libgtksourceview-5-dev libadwaita-1-dev libspelling-1-dev\
                 libsqlite3-dev libssl-dev

Fedora

sudo dnf install git curl gcc\
                 gtk4-devel gtksourceview5-devel libadwaita-devel libspelling-devel\
                 sqlite-devel openssl-devel

Rust

Use rustup installer to setup latest Rust compiler and Cargo package manager:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Install

Stable

cargo install Yoda

• run Yoda

Repository

git clone https://github.com/YGGverse/Yoda.git
cd Yoda
cargo build

• cargo run

Development

Contribution

• Before commit, please make sure:
  • new branch created for every new PR git checkout -b 'contribution-name'
  • new code follows common rustfmt style cargo fmt --check
  • run cargo clippy for final optimization

Contributors

Releases

• Package version in repository increase after crates.io release
• Until DB migration not implemented, application will create new profile on CARGO_PKG_VERSION_MAJOR.CARGO_PKG_VERSION_MINOR change

See also

• ggemtext - Glib-oriented Gemtext API
• ggemini - Glib-oriented client for Gemini protocol