Yamr: A Lightweight Linux Client for Yammer
When the official Yammer AIR client stopped fetching new messages a few weeks back, one developer decided to take matters into his own hands and build a replacement. The result is Yamr, a small Ruby/GTK application that taps into the same stream of commits and updates that made the service so useful in the first place.
Yamr is built on top of jstewart’s yammer4r library and danlucraft’s Ruby WebKit-GTK+ bindings, with particular praise reserved for the latter’s author. The client’s feature set is intentionally lean: it reads messages, posts new ones, supports OAuth authentication, and delivers desktop notifications via libnotify instead of the original AIR widget.
Early Days, Open for Hacking
Yamr is admittedly basic right now, but the core plumbing is in place for further expansion. The project is up on GitHub and open for forks, with build instructions for ruby-webkit included in the readme for Ubuntu users. Anyone looking to extend the client is encouraged to jump in and start tinkering.
