There is a new application available for Sparkers: Forkgram
What is Forkgram?
Forkgram is the fork of the official Telegram Desktop application. This fork does not fundamentally change the official client and adds only some useful small features.
Features:
– Square avatars.
– Square tray icon.
– Opening any links with a custom URI Scheme.
– Chckmark “Delete for everyone” by default.
– The fourth button in the title to “Always on top” window. (Windows only.)
– Showing the full timestamp if the user was online more than 1 hour ago.
– Hotkeys for the mediaview was usability improved. Cheatsheet.
– Experimental auto-submitting of the local passcode.
– Showing date of forwarded messages in the title.
– Button to go to the first message. (Telegrate’s idea.)
– Option to remove fading of audio when it’s paused/played.
– Ability to see thumbs of the executable files as well as for other files.
– Ability to search a selected text via the context menu.
– Ability to show the last seen time of the user in list of the dialogs.
– Option to enable a display of all recently used stickers.
– Auto-replacing of “…” with “…”.
– Ability to bind Ctrl+6-9 dialogs with Ctrl+Shift+6-9 shortcuts.
– Ability to send files to Saved Messages without the forward header.
– Forward messages without quoting the original sender via Share box.
Installation (Sparky 7 & 8 amd64):
sudo apt update
sudo apt install forkgram
License: GNU GPL 3
Web: github.com/forkgram/tdesktop