{"id":4673,"date":"2015-02-14T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T12:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2015-02-14T12:48:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T12:48:24","slug":"scudcloud-ubuntu-client-for-slack-team-communication-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/02\/scudcloud-ubuntu-client-for-slack-team-communication-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Scudcloud &#8211; Ubuntu Client for Slack Team Communication Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/slack-icon-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/slack-icon-logo.png\" alt=\"Slack team communication tool icon\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/slack-icon-logo.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/slack-icon-logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>ScudCloud is an unofficial, open-source Ubuntu Linux desktop client for Slack team communication tool.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slack<\/a> is a team communication tool founded by Stewart Butterfield, it offers one-on-one messaging, private groups, persistent chat rooms, direct messaging as well as group chats. All content inside Slack is searchable from one search box. Slack integrates with a number of third-party services, including Google Docs, Dropbox, Heroku, Crashlytics, GitHub and Zendesk.<\/p>\n<p>So far, slack provides Mac, iOS, and Android apps, as well as Web versions. ScudCloud is an <b>non official<\/b> Linux client that uses the QT library + Webkit to render the web version of Slack, but using the QWebkit-Native bridge to improve desktop integration with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>native system notifications,<\/li>\n<li>count of unread notifications at launcher icon,<\/li>\n<li>launcher icon wobbling on new messages,<\/li>\n<li>and channels quicklist at launcher icon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scudcloud-slackclient1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scudcloud-slackclient1.jpg\" alt=\"scudcloud slack client for Linux\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scudcloud-slackclient1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scudcloud-slackclient1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/scudcloud-slackclient1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu users can easily install the client from the developer&#8217;s PPA. So far, <b>Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 10.04 and derivatives are supported<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Just open up terminal from the Dash or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, run 3 commands one by one to add PPA, update system cache and install the app:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:rael-gc\/scudcloud\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install scudcloud<\/pre>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA, grab the <b>.deb<\/b> package directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/rael-gc\/scudcloud\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/s\/scudcloud\/\" target=\"_blank\">this page<\/a> and install it via Ubuntu Software Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\">via: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/raelgc\/scudcloud\/\" target=\"_blank\">github.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ScudCloud is an unofficial, open-source Ubuntu Linux desktop client for Slack team communication tool. Slack is a team communication tool founded by Stewart Butterfield, it offers one-on-one messaging, private groups, persistent chat rooms, direct messaging as well as group chats. All content inside Slack is searchable from one search box. 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