Video Chat Now Works in the Desktop App

The WarmDesk Linux AppImage now correctly exposes camera and microphone access on all major distributions — including Fedora, openSUSE, and any distribution whose system GStreamer version differs from Ubuntu.

The root cause was an ABI mismatch: the AppImage bundles webkit2gtk from Ubuntu 24.04, which expects GStreamer 1.24 plugins, but distributions like Fedora 43 ship GStreamer 1.26 in their system plugin directory (/usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/). When GStreamer tried to load those system plugins, it hit undefined symbols and fell back to finding no usable elements at all — camera and microphone appeared in the picker but the preview stayed black.

The fix bundles the full set of GStreamer 1.24 plugins directly inside the AppImage and points GStreamer at those exclusively, so the host system’s GStreamer installation is bypassed entirely. No configuration is needed: it works out of the box on any Linux system that can run an AppImage.

Group video calls are no longer restricted to conversations with three or more members. Any group chat can now start a video room from the camera button in the chat header.

One-to-one calls remain peer-to-peer WebRTC. Group calls continue to use LiveKit — the operator configuration (livekit_url, livekit_api_key, livekit_api_secret) is unchanged.

The call button in 1:1 conversations now uses a camera icon, consistent with the group chat button.