max1mde / dorion

Tiny alternative Discord client with a smaller footprint and support for plugins and themes!

Dorion

Dorion is an alternative Discord client aimed and lower-spec or storage-sensitive PCs that supports themes, plugins, and more!
https://discord.gg/agQ9mRdHMZ

Table of Contents

• Setup
• Why use Dorion?
  • Plugins
  • Themes
• Platform Support
• Building
  • Prerequisites
  • Steps
• Known Issues
• Troubleshooting
• TODO
• Using Plugins and Themes
• Contributing
• Screenshots

Setup

Download a release (.msi for Windows 10/11, .zip for Windows 7, .deb for Debian, etc.) and install!

If you'd like to be on the cutting edge, you can also grab an artifact from the actions tab!

Why use Dorion?

• Portable (mostly)
• Low - if any - cache footprint (compared to the PTB client)
• Extremely small installation size (~10mb!) on Windows
  • This is because unlike the Discord client, Dorion does not bundle an entire Chromium engine
• Often loads slightly faster (vanilla)
• Switch between Stable, Canary and PTB clients straight from the settings
• Built-in telemetry blocking option
• Not only is Vencord included by default, but Dorion uses a custom fork of Vencord with extras specifically for Dorion
• Made by me (automatically makes it cooler)

Plugins

While Dorion does not support BetterDiscord plugins (or other mods that use modified .asars), it does support browser-based ones!

Themes

Dorion supports all themes, BetterDiscord and others

Jump to "Using Plugins and Themes"

Platform Support

Feature	Windows	Linux	MacOS
Basics (logging in, navigation, text/DMs etc.)	✓	✓	✓
Voice	✓	❌[1]	❌[2]
Themes	✓	✓	✓
Vencord (and included plugins)	✓	❌[3]	✓
Dorion Plugins	✓	✓	✓

^[1] Webkit2GTK does not support WebRTC. See #30.
^[2] Currently can connect to VC, but won't pass "RTC Connecting". Needs a bit more coaxing to get working.
^[3] This is due to unsupported RegEx. In order for this to work, Webkit2GTK needs to update to support it, or I need to rewrite all RegEx in Vencord to not use lookbehind/ahead (there is a lot).

Building

Prerequisites

• NodeJS
• Rust and Cargo

Steps

1. Clone/download the repository
2. Open a terminal window in the root project folder
3. Install JS dependencies:

yarn install
# or
npm install

4. Build the minified versions of the JS/HTML files:

yarn build
# or
npm run build

5. Pull the Vencord fork

yarn update

6. Build!

yarn tauri build
# or to debug/open in dev mode
yarn tauri dev

All built files will be in src-tauri/target/(release|debug)/. When using portably, the html, icons, and injection folders are required. Installation files (eg. .msi) are located in bundle/msi

Known Issues

• A couple bugs with CSS & image import related stuff
• Fonts/font-faces will randomly not work
• (MacOS) Injection JS does not reinject after reloading the page
• (Linux) Vencord JS does not inject... at all.
  • This is due to lookbehind/ahead RegEx not being supported in Webkit2GTK, which is what Dorion uses on Linux. Either I have to replace all lookbehind/ahead RegEx with something else, or wait for Webkit2GTK to support it.

Troubleshooting

If you are having problems opening Dorion, or it instantly crashes, or something similar, try the following:

• Install via MSI instead of the .zip file
• Use the .zip file instead of the MSI
• (If using the .zip file) make sure all files were extracted properly (html, injection, etc.)
• Reinstall WebView2
  • Fully uninstall and reinstall.
  • If you are having trouble uninstalling it, try deleting this registry folder and uninstalling again Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\Clients\{F3017226-FE2A-4295-8BDF-00C3A9A7E4C5}
  • You can also try uninstalling from the Command Prompt

TODO

• Pre-process fonts like images/CSS imports are already done
• Multi-thread CSS processing
• Use resource files from application itself instead of the filesystem
• Desktop notifications
  • AND displaying the number of notifs in the desktop icon
• Webpack stuff
• Global push-to-talk
• Rich presence(?)
• Helper API methods and events for plugins
• Backup localized themes
• Localization timeout
• Safemode key (disable themes and plugins)
• New release notifications
• Logging system (like reMITM)

Using Plugins and Themes

See the examples directory for examples of plugins, including how to include external code and themes. You can also look at my own plugins/themes repo for some existing ones with actual use.

Plugins and themes are relatively simple to use, the file structure looks like so on Windows:

.
└── C:/Users/USERNAME/dorion/
    ├── plugins/
    |   └── plugin.js
    |   └── plugin_name/
    |       └── index.js
    └── themes/
        └── theme.css
        └── Theme2
            └── theme2.css

and like so on Linux:

.
└── ~/dorion/
    ├── plugins/
    |   └── plugin.js
    |   └── plugin_name/
    |       └── index.js
    └── themes/
        └── theme.css
        └── Theme2
            └── theme2.css

so if you download a plugin or theme, just pop it into the plugins/themes folder!

Contributing

Issues, PRs, etc. are all welcome!

Screenshots

Installation size.

Loading screen. So cool!

Theme: Dark Neon