Linux support

[jakedex]

We're using electron-package to build for the macOS platform. It'd be great if someone could try building the executables for Windows and/or Linux.

[RgtArRr]

Bin photosorcery doesn't work on Windows 10

[briandennis]

Windows support has been added! If anyone wants to try building for Linux, that would be much appreciated!

[fogoat]

Is anyone able to run Alchemy.exe on Windows 7 64-bit? I downloaded Alchemy-win32-x64.zip and extracted the zip file. I ran Alchemy.exe and nothing happens. Not sure what's going on.

[briandennis]

@sunk818 did you check the task bar at the bottom? It won't pop up like a normal window would until you click the task bar icon or use the keyboard shortcut.

[RgtArRr]

I downloaded Alchemy-win32-x64.zip and it works very well. Dont forget press Control+Shift+8 or click the tray icon for open it.

[usamaejaz]

I can help on this 👍

[mfix22]

Thanks @usamaejaz!

[jrhorn424]

I've compiled and started on Ubuntu and Kubuntu so far. I'll be testing in Xubuntu, Mint Cinnamon, Mint Mate, FreeBSD, and Element.

I'll post more details when I log back into my Ubuntu machine, but the short story is that compatibility will be limited by which desktop environment is used. I won't test on Unity (since that's been abandoned for Gnome 3), but Gnome 3 does not have a menubar. The application starts fine, but you can't find an icon anywhere. Fixing that should be part of an update to electron.

Here's a shot of the app running fine on Kubuntu, though the placement is a bit odd and a light icon would be nice.

[jrhorn424]

Running the app in XFCE produces odd behavior.

A button appears below the icon when the icon is clicked in the menubar.

After clicking the button, the Alchemy window appears.

I'm not going to test the other desktop environments right now. Next I'd like to verify functionality works as expected in KDE.

[kaluk1321]

Build log in KDE:

The container shows in the taskbar, but if you click anywhere it disappears making the program useless.

It would be nice to see a version where it can be a separate entity from the minimized taskbar.

[binlabs]

@kaluk1321 First off, really nice work looking into this issue.

It would be nice to see a version where it can be a separate entity from the minimized taskbar.

I agree with this, it seems that the way that Windows and many of the desktop environments for Linux distros work, a taskbar icon simply isn't going to work for an easy workflow. It works great in OSX, but I feel a different approach is required for both Linux and Windows.