It's always sad to see a long-standing bit of open-source software put itself out to pasture (a euphemism for going way of the dodo, which is a metaphor

note: ClamAV is a separate, distinct project whose development is overseen by the Talos Group, at Cisco Systems and is not affected by this decision

  • @thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    21•6 months ago

    Yes, ClamTk is “just” a GUI for ClamAV. I wish the article would have listed a few active alternatives. For the Rust humans under us, there is curently https://github.com/ivangabriele/clamav-desktop in development, but still misses a few features. Flathub does not have any other GUI than ClamTk currently. My guess is, someone will fork current ClamTk and work on that?

    • Strit
      14•6 months ago

      Or better yet, design a modern gui in gtk/qt.

      There’s also a great TUI in libredefender, also written in Rust.

      • @thingsiplay@beehaw.org
        3•6 months ago

        Maybe one that is written in Rust with Iced toolkit? This could play well into System 76’s laptops, for people coming from Windows and expecting an Antivirus tool. I mean at least there is a commercial motivation behind it, so it might get written fast (given how fast they develop the COSMIC desktop environment).

      • Aatube
        2•6 months ago

        You can combine both widget toolkits in one app‽