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For now, it is almost two years since I moved from macOS to elementary OS as my daily driver. And, as I said earlier, I'm a developer. After looking for a native text editor I made myself think to make Norka. But, this article is about the distinct application. Actually, I'm not the author of it, the app is already a part of elementary itself - Contractor.
To write a good contract we need to find out what command does the job we need. In some cases, it could be easily extracted from --help info or man pages. Luckily Telegram command-line switches are fully described in the GitHub Wiki: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/wiki/Command-Line-Switches. -sendpath - the desired switch.
Create telegram-share.contract file and open it in Code or your text editor of choice. Change Name to Share via Telegram and Exec field to a command we discovered earlier. If English is not your primary language you can add localized Name by adding Name[language code] option. For example:
Because it differences in one case of installation on another I will write for the Flathub version.
As of elementary OS user, I can simply go to flathub.org and press the "Install" button. Sideload app do the job. But what about other distros? Well, the right way is completely covered on the Flathub site so we don't wanna go through all steps :)