Piki

Unofficial Kirigami client for Pixiv.

Features

• Multi-account support (tags for search queries are cached per-account)
• Setting works as wallpapers (works on KDE and Hyprland only)
• Opening illustration/manga directly by submitting URL in search bar
• Configuration of startup page

(+ basic browsing, follows, bookmarks)

Screenshots

Project structure

Piki = front-end Kirigami app
Piqi = unofficial Qt-based Pixiv API

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Installation

# Flatpak
flatpak install io.github.microgamercz.piki

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# Arch (via AUR)
yay -S piki-git

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# OpenSUSE (unofficial via OBS)
# Tumbleweed repo
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Nara/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/home:Nara.repo
# Slowroll repo
zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Nara/openSUSE_Slowroll/home:Nara.repo

zypper refresh
zypper install piki

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Contributions

Code/translation contributions are welcome, as well as independent testing.

Translations

• Czech
• Dutch (by Vistaus)

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Used libraries and assets

• Qt + Kirigami (and other KDE Frameworks) + Kirigami Addons
• L4ki - icons from Vivid Glassy Dark icon pack (favorites-symbolic, folder-paint-symbolic)
• ZipFile - Pixiv auth process
• Crown icon for Rankings
• Audiotube - design style of sidebar and header
• QCoro
• QtKeyring

If you like Pixiv, consider paying for Pixiv premium.

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(A lot of) TODOs

• Fixes
  • Typos in original strings or Czech translations
  • Novels feeds not loading
• General
  • Improve performance (especially after navigating a few feed pages)
  • Network error handling - either with passive notifications or dialogs
  • Splitting Header and Search field
  • Convergent layout
  • pixiv Premium features
  • Fix object caching
  • Rewrite SelectionButtons to work based on index (or use different control)
  • Create templates for certain SelectionButtons implementations, they aren't much different from each other
  • Bind tags history to each account in local cache
  • Use more integrated controls (such as StatefulWindow instead of ApplicationWindow)
  • Notifications(?)
  • Proper Android support
  • Messages from web client
  • Implementing pixiv Fanbox (least important)
  • Posting new illusts/manga/novels (button will be in the top right corner)
  • Account settings
  • my Pixiv page
  • Local browsing history (+ online for premium users)
  • Rewrite login process to remove dependency on QtWebEngine
  • Cropping for "Set as wallpaper" share option when there's a mismatch between the aspect ratio of the image and the monitor
• In-app notification when API returns error after multiple API calls in a short while (or added delays? could be due to the minimal parameters compared to the app)
• Profile page
  • More appropriate icon for fanbox link
• Novel page
  • Custom viewer parsed from the DOM
• Welcome
  • Setup showing user the interface
  • Showing privacy policy popup (same as in the official app)(?)
  • Fix animations of Welcome screen, polish the design
• Comments
  • Adding comments (even replies)
  • Deleting Comments
  • Parsing pixiv emojies into Unicode or freedesktop icon emojis
• Settings
  • Add individual account settings