Closed mathiasbynens closed 11 years ago
Are you aware of any repercussions of installing apps into your ~/Applications/
directory?
Been wanting something like this for a long time. Yay. /me run runs away updating my dotfiles
current list of cask-able apps:
$ brew cask search
adium daisy-disk inkscape notational-velocity steam
adobe-air dashlane instashare nv-alt sublime-text
air-server dia intellij-community one-password surplus-meter
air-video-server disk-inventory-x intellij-ultimate open-office tagalicious
alfred divvy ireadfast optimal-layout textadept
anvil dropbox irip p4merge textmate1
ap-grapher eclipse istat-menus paintbrush textmate2
app-cleaner emacs istopmotion pandora-jam textual
app-zapper enjoy iterm2 paparazzi textwrangler
appcode evernote jumpcut path-finder the-unarchiver
aquamacs f-lux justlooking picard thunderbird
arq fantastical keepass-x pixen time-machine-editor
at-monitor filebot keka please-sleep tor-browser
avidemux firefox keyboard-maestro plex tor-browser-alpha
back-in-time firefox-aurora launch-bar plex-media-server totals
bartender fluid layervault postgres transmission
bettertouchtool flux libre-office propane transmit
bit-torrent-sync free-cad lime-chat quicksilver true-crypt
boot-x-changer gas-mask little-snitch racket tunewiki
brackets gephi livestation rdio tvmobili
burn gfxcardstatus macvim ringtones u-torrent
caffeine gimp mailplane ripit ukelele
camino github makemkv rubymine unetbootin
candybar gitx menu-bar-filter scrivener vagrant
cfxr gitx-l menu-meters scrup vienna-rss
changes gmail-notifr meteorologist seashore vine-server
chicken gnucash miro sequel-pro virtualbox
chocolat google-chrome miro-video-converter shortcat vlc
chromium google-chrome-canary money sigil wav-tap
clarify google-notifier moom simple-comic woodhouse
clean-my-mac handbrake mou size-up x-quartz
clip-menu handbrakebatch mplayer-osx-extended skitch xbmc
coconutbattery hands-off mplayerx skype xld
codekit hip-chat mu-commander slate xscope
colloquy hiss mumble sourcetree xtra-finder
cord i-stumbler name-changer sparrow you-need-a-budget
cura imagealpha namemangler spectacle zooom
cyberduck imageoptim net-spot spotify
@paulirish You can view the same list here (useful if you need to look anything up in their formula’s source code): https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/tree/master/Casks
@cowboy Not sure, but I’d rather “install” them into my /Applications
directory anyway, like other apps: brew cask install --appdir="/Applications" foo
.
(“Install” because homebrew-cask installs everything into /opt/homebrew-cask/Caskroom/
, and simply adds shortcuts to ~/Applications
(default) or /Applications
.)
Are you aware of any repercussions of installing apps into your ~/Applications/ directory?
@cowboy The only downside about symlinking apps I've found is that some apps ask you on start if you want to move the app to /Applications. For example the GitHub app and Sequel Pro asked me about that. The problem if you click yes is that there is already a symlink there and it becomes kind of a mess.
Fortunately there is a checkbox to never ask you about that again.
https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask — This can be used to automate installation of
.app
s!/cc @necolas @cowboy @gf3 @paulirish @sindresorhus @addyosmani who might be interested in this as well