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Missing Linux dependencies
I'm just curious when I see these options in settings:
if Museeks shouldn't have libappindicator, libxss, libxtst or something like that in recommended dependencies?
Those features make use of APIs that are provided by Electron, so I would expect them to be installed when the app is installed 🤔
But Linux's DEs are such a mess that you never really know what is already there, and if installing the dependencies will even make the feature work :x
I'm asking because I just created ebuild in my overlay to provide Museeks to Gentoo users.
It's not so important I guess, but I can't test Museeks without these libraries, because I already have them installed in the system. Time will show.
Ah, interesting 🤔
maybe these dependencies should be added there: https://github.com/martpie/museeks/blob/32f09584f5b501cca9d1a570b454ce584dbb3431/electron-builder.yml#L24
But we'd need to be sure to understand why they are not bundled with Electron. And if they are the correct name for all the Linux distros out there.
I know about these dependencies you mentioned. I found them in a .deb package.
And that missing dependencies should be provided as default by the common desktop environments, so It's probably not a big deal.
In the worst case that features won't probably work.
Yea, something like:
If you are experiencing troubles with Sleep mode blocker or Minimize to tray options, make sure you have ..... installed
And off-topic, when I mentioned ebuild, you can also add a note in the README about installing Museeks on Gentoo. Or should I create a pull request?
I don't know a lot about Gentoo and even less about ebuild. What is ebuild? their own .deb/.rpm/.AppImage?
Ebulid is text file, which says to package manager (Portage), how to extract and install the package into the system. You can specify a source file to download, in my case I used your .deb release on GitHub. Ebuilds are abstractions above manual extraction, (compilation) and installation.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild
In other words, when you don't have ebuild, you have to download .deb or .rpm package, extract it and place these files to proper locations. When you want to uninstall this, you have to keep notes which files you copied and where. Then find them and remove them.
When you have ebuild for this, all you have to do is type one command for installation and one for uninstallation. The package manager will handle it.
And package manager can also handle automatic updates when new ebuild is released in the repository.
Ou, and I didn't mean you to explain that in README. :smile:
Just something like this would help Gentoo users to get what they want.
Installation
Gentoo
Follow instructions here.
After some research, I have decided to kill the tray feature. See my rationale in #686 :)