So it's "just" the GTK gui that is iunmaintained. ClamAV and the other user interfaces for it will still be developed.
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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?
Or better yet, design a modern gui in gtk/qt.
There's also a great TUI in libredefender, also written in Rust.
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).
You can combine both widget toolkits in one app‽
That seems unmaintained since 2022
It's not GTK, it's tk.
Isn't ClamTK a GUI to ClamAV if I remember correctly?
I don't know anyone who actually used clamtk
I think the only TK-based tools I have ever uses are gitk and git gui. And even those I have mostly replaced with tig and lazygit
I used it a few times. Essentially having a one-click scan was nice, but I could never get it to properly update the virus definitions. Now I just run clamd, freshclam and clamonacc at startup. Uses a ton of RAM but then I don't have to worry about actually doing anything beyond that.
You don't need it
I used it once back in like 2006.
You guys use antivirus on linux?
You don't?
Why would we?
Who are you?
A developer who hasn't caught a virus since his teenage years.
Then who are they?
Who?
Who are we really?
(I'm just circle jerking)
Really wish they wouldn't have clickbaited the title
I used to use clamtk occasionally when I was first getting into linux, nice little gui that made clam way simpler to use for me at the time, when I misunderstood what clamav was meant for (email scanning on gateways, not traditional antivirus)
Hexchat too? :(
ClamAV is great tool for email servers to integrate with a message transport agent to detect Windows viruses and reject such messages before they reach users mailboxes. (Or pretend it’s accepted but don’t actually deliver) Other than that, I don’t really know if it makes sense… Maybe if binaries run directly or appimages got more common
It is just the GUI, relax