Introduced AppImage build system

tiktaalik-dev / blueproximity

Desktop application to lock/unlock your screen automatically based on detecting how close it's to another Bluetooth device (e.g. your mobile phone).

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Introduced AppImage build system #12

Closed ebababi closed 3 years ago

ebababi commented 3 years ago

I believe a good way to ease access to this application is distributing as an AppImage.

Leveraging appimage-builder a configuration has been created to generate an AppImage bundle of the project. Minimal changes to the rest of the code base include:

Git ignoring temporary files and generated artifacts.
Converting XPM icon to PNG and storing in addons. This was an appimage-builder requirement.
When dist_path is not explicitly set, resolve to the script path instead of the current path.

One may explore GitHub Actions to automatically build the AppImage bundle.

I have tried the generated AppImage on Ubuntu 20.04, however I haven't tried on any other distribution.

tiktaalik-dev commented 3 years ago

Hi Nikolaos,

Sorry for the late reply, it's been kind of hectic for me lately. Thanks so much for this contribution! It's a great idea making an AppImage! But may I ask for you to create a '/feature/AppImage' branch, please? Or if you allow it in your pull request maybe I could do it myself. I reckon GitHub has that feature, if I remember correctly. Thanks in advance for your help to improve this software!

Cheers, Rigo

ebababi commented 3 years ago

Hi Rigo,

Of course you can do any modification you see fit.

I'm not sure how to open a new branch pulling from my repository, but if you can feel free.

Regards,

Nikolaos

tiktaalik-dev commented 3 years ago

Hi again Nikolaos, Thanks again for your contribution :smile: I'm going to experiment now with this configuration and then merge it on the master branch. Please let me know how do you want to be credited for your work when I do the final merge. Maybe you want to add an email address next to your name? Or your GitHub username?

Cheers, Rigo.

ebababi commented 3 years ago

Hi Rigo,

Thank you for the consideration. I have no preference and even no mention at all is also OK. I leave it to your discretion.

Regards, Nikolaos