Kotatogram — experimental Telegram Desktop fork by @EricKotato.

Some of the fork features:
• Custom font selection
• Compact chat list and compact folders
• Custom sticker size
• Adaptive chat bubbles (ported from patch)
• and many more, maybe I'll make a full list later.

This channel is for new versions of fork, changelogs, maybe something more.

New versions could be found by build hashtags:
• #Windows: Portable Windows builds
• #WindowsInstaller: Installer Windows builds
• #Linux64: Linux 64-bit static builds
• #AppImage: Linux AppImage builds
• #macOS: experimental macOS builds

Source code: github.com/kotatogram/kotatogram-desktop

Info for translators:
@kotatolangs

Top contributors:
• @Shlyupa — made lots of fixes (most of them for Linux), added AppImage and macOS builds, and much more.
• @ykkzde — supported kotatogram-desktop-bin AUR package earlier, and made new moustache that currently used in Kotatogram logo.
• @winqooq — translated Kotatogram into Ukrainian.

New version is out!
1.2.2 (TD 2.0.1)

For starters, there is new folder option: Hide "All chats" folder. Pretty obvious on what it does, and not actually obvious on how to open it in that case, so I'll explain.
• If "All chats" is default folder, you can press Escape when chat closed.
• If you haven't set custom hotkeys, you can use Ctrl+1 to open "All chats" folder.
• You can also set folder_all shortcut in tdata/shortcuts-custom.json.

About the last one. In TDesktop 2.0.1 changed default hotkeys: folders are switching on Ctrl+number instead of Ctrl+Shift+number. Pinned chats now opened only if there is no corresponding folder. After the update I've noticed that some wanted to return old behaviour. And I actually could add an option, but instead of dealing with unstable key logic and creating more switches I've decided to go other way: add new custom hotkeys.

• pinned_1 — pinned_5: pinned chats.
• folder_all: "All chats" folder.
• folder_1 — folder_6: folders.
• folder_last: last folder in the list.
• folder_next and folder_previous: folder navigation.

If you want to return old behaviour, but you're lazy to set it youself, you can take this config file from GitHub Gist, and put into tdata profile folder. Don't forget to restart the app for hotkey settings to take effect.

Also you can open this folder fast by opening Kotatogram Settings and selecting "Show custom settings" in three-dots menu

Some little things
• Options count is growing, but worst growing is per-section. So that's why I moved some settings of "Chats" section to "Messages" section: sticker height, adaptive bubbles, big emoji outline.
• When you change folder settings with opened folder, panel incorrectly showed current folder. I fixed it.

And yeah, almost forgot. Thanks to @IlyaFedin there a now AppImage build. I have troubles with keyboard layout though, and updates are manual for now, but if you want to test, they are published under #AppImage.

New version is out!
1.3 (TD 2.1)

Control branches haven't proved themselves helpful, so I won't do them anymore. Instead I've decided to make a refactor, separating fork functionality from base client. In theory it should help me supporting fork in the long run.

Initially I thought to start refactoring after release, but since original client's release was late, I've made some things in this direction.

Let's move to changes.

• "Discuss" button in channel now available for everyone, even for those who aren't subscribed.
• When unpinning message, you can now hide it for yourself instead.
• Sticker packs now have drop-down menu. For now there are two items: "Copy name" and "Share stickers", but I'm planning to make it bigger eventually.
• Links to chats with username now support query parameter, that opens search by chat along with opening the chat itself. Examples: t.me/kotatogram?query=#Windows, tg://resolve?domain=kotatogram&query=#Linux64
• Search for user's messages in chat member context menu or message context menu in group.
• You can now select and copy text in link open confirmation or viewing bot message by button.
• Poll explanation has these features too, and shown in the box instead of tooltip.
• And as the last one, two options that were only in JSON, now available in menu: "Profile photo rounding" and "Tray icon".

As an additon to changes, this version has fixes.

• Font settings are now resetting correctly.
• Working dir path in tray now uses correct OS separators.
• Open Sans height now uses metrics from bundled font. Also, "Original font height" option now renamed to "Use Open Sans height".
• Fixed unnecessary switches to default folder. It happened when you pin or reorder pins in folder. Also it was messing up sorting of pinned chats. If you haven't catched this bug, you can consider yourself lucky, because I was annoyed a lot by it.

By the way, @IlyaFedin made numerous changes to the #AppImage, fixing compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04, autostart, adding autoupdate and much more.