Nextcloud Desktop Client
The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with your computer.
🚀 Releases
For the latest stable recommended version, please refer to the download page https://nextcloud.com/install/#install-clients
Contributing to the desktop client
✌️ Please read the Code of Conduct. This document offers some guidance to ensure Nextcloud participants can cooperate effectively in a positive and inspiring atmosphere and to explain how together we can strengthen and support each other.
👪 Join the team
There are many ways to contribute, of which development is only one! Find out how to get involved, including as a translator, designer, tester, helping others, and much more! 😍
Help testing
Download and install the client: 🔽 All releases 🔽 Daily master builds
Reporting issues
If you find any bugs or have any suggestion for improvement, please open an issue in this repository.
Bug fixing and development
1. 🚀 Set up your local development environment
1.1 System requirements
- Windows 10, Windows 11, Mac OS > 10.14 or Linux
[!NOTE] Find the system requirements and instructions on how to work on Windows with KDE Craft on our desktop client blueprints repository.
- 🔽 Inkscape (to generate icons)
- Developer tools: cmake, clang/gcc/g++:
- Qt6 since 3.14, Qt5 for earlier versions
- OpenSSL
- 🔽 QtKeychain
- SQLite
1.2 Optional
[!TIP] We highly recommend Nextcloud development environment on Docker Compose for testing/bug fixing/development. ▶️ https://juliushaertl.github.io/nextcloud-docker-dev/
1.3 Step by step instructions on how to build the client
- Clone the Github repository:
git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop.git
- Create :
mkdir <build directory>
- Compile:
cd <build directory>
cmake -S <cloned desktop repo> -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<dependencies> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=. -DNEXTCLOUD_DEV=ON
[!TIP] The cmake variabel NEXTCLOUD_DEV allows you to run your own build of the client while developing in parallel with an installed version of the client.
- Build it:
- Windows:
cmake --build .
- Other platforms:
make
2. 🐛 Pick a good first issue
3. 👩🔧 Create a branch and make your changes. Remember to sign off your commits using git commit -sm "Your commit message"
4. ⬆ Create a pull request and @mention the people from the issue to review
5. 👍 Fix things that come up during a review
6. 🎉 Wait for it to get merged!
Get in touch 💬
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📜 License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
for more details.