Linux support (and perhaps other OSes)

[1ace]

First of all, congrats on an awesome app!

You stated that this only works on Windows; could you list the Windows-specific parts, so that contributors can help provide more compatible alternatives, towards the goal of making Tiger work on Linux (and perhaps other OSes as well)?

Thanks!

[agersant]

Thank you for the kind words! ♥

Good news is nothing in Tiger's tech stack is very Windows-centric. The most limiting factors (for me) are the time/setup to QA other platforms, and idiomatic packaging/distribution.

Here is a list of hopefully everything that is needed to support another platform:

• View in Explorer context menu item implementation:

  tiger/src-tauri/src/app/tauri.rs

  Line 263 in 3dcca3f

  pub fn reveal_in_explorer(path: PathBuf) {

• Github Actions setup for CI (https://github.com/agersant/tiger/blob/master/.github/workflows/ci.yml)
• Packaging/release process (https://tauri.app/v1/guides/building/linux/), including:
  • Users can download and install/uninstall Tiger (https://github.com/agersant/tiger/blob/master/.github/workflows/release.yml)
  • .tiger files are associated with Tiger
  • Auto-updates (also part of the release job on Github Actions + https://tauri.app/v1/guides/distribution/updater)
• Single-instance setup uses Windows-specific interprocess communication and locking (https://github.com/agersant/tiger/blob/master/src-tauri/src/features/single_instance.rs)
• Extensive testing of the UI. tauri is backed by webviews which differ per platform, and only Edge Webview (Chromium in disguise) has been tested so far
• Installation instructions in README

Development setup requires npm and tauri cli:

• npm install (builds frontend)
• cargo tauri dev (builds and run app, auto-reloads upon every change)
• cargo tauri build (builds and packages app under src-tauri/target/release)

[jdm]

https://github.com/jdm/tiger/tree/macos allows the app to start up on macOS, but the app contents are basically unresponsive. I can't get it to do more than highlight a menu item or button; nothing happens when I click. Closing the app is instant, however.

[agersant]

Thanks for getting the ball rolling!

This is the Typescript code that should run when you click New Document:

tiger/src/backend/api.ts

Line 57 in 3dcca3f

export async function newDocument() {

From what you describe, it sounds like the system file picker is failing to open 🤔 - that much is supposed to be cross-platform via tauri.