Ollama applet for COSMIC Desktop

<img alt="chat" src="https://github.com/cosmic-utils/cosmic-ext-applet-ollama/blob/main/screenshots/chat.png" width="280">
<img alt="settings" src="https://github.com/cosmic-utils/cosmic-ext-applet-ollama/blob/main/screenshots/settings.png" width="280">

Before using this applet, you must have Ollama installed on your system. To do this, run this in your terminal:

curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh

Source: Ollama Github

After installing Ollama. Pull some models, you would like to use with chat, for example

ollama pull mistral

More models you can find in library: Ollama/Library

Installing this applet

Clone the repository, and use just

If you don't have just installed, it is available in PopOS repository, so you can install it with apt

sudo apt install just

or for Fedora

sudo dnf install just

Now you can clone repo and install applet.

git clone https://github.com/cosmic-utils/cosmic-ext-applet-ollama.git
cd cosmic-ext-applet-ollama

Building

Run just:

just build-release

Installing

sudo just install

Done

From now, you will be able to add applet to your desktop panel/dock and chat with different models in real time :)

Cheers!

Known wgpu issue

There are currently some rendering issues with the wgpu libcosmic features in some (older?) gpus. This doesn't affect Ollama, only the applet. If you are affected by this, you can build and install it with this feature disabled:

just build-no-wgpu
sudo just install