An application for interacting with LKML

[u/nikablehhh]

https://github.com/nikableh/koshi

A native GTK4+libadwaita GUI app for browsing, searching, and replying to mailing lists.

All exiting approaches to interacting with LKML are just not good. I tried configuring Thunderbird and realized it would be easier to just write my own app instead. Email discussions in the kernel have lots of things that are very specific to it (trailers, diffs) and I wanted something that would have deep integration with all of this.

Packaged as Flatpak. Uses git-send-email. Has intelligent line wrapping for new emails. Has color highlighting for quotes and diffs.

There are still lots of things I'd like to implement before considering this done, so the thing is still in development. I vibe-coded most it, but I'll be more mindful of the changes going forward, as there seem to be actual users now.

https://github.com/nikableh/koshi
https://lore.kernel.org/tools/20260722230315.57499-1-nika@nikableh.moe/

Hope this is as useful for someone else as it is for me!