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| Platypus | Shoes | |
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| 6 | 2 | |
| 2,706 | 1,581 | |
| - | 1.4% | |
| 7.1 | 3.1 | |
| 3 days ago | 5 months ago | |
| Objective-C | Ruby | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Platypus
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Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
Something for which I wish there was a windows variant...
Embedding a script into a small tray icon/menubar app can be extremely powerfull even with its low complexity.
[1]: https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus
- Sveinbjornt/Platypus: Create native Mac applications from command line scripts
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Application-Specific Terminals
> Which apps do you use actually it for?
neovim, mutt, tig, weechat
> That's what aliases are for (or you could rename the binary?)!
Unfortunately, it's not that simple on macOS for app bundles. The human readable name of the app bundle really doesn't matter that much to the operating system -- it's the contents of Info.plist that matter. In order to have a separate app that can be Cmd+Tab'd to, you have to have a separate app bundle, separate app bundle identifier, etc. There's really not a way around it on macOS that I've seen.
(And to be clear, aliases do work on the command line. I'm talking specifically about GUI apps - which is my primary method of separating my different activities. Terminal emulator tabs are not good enough.)
This also doesn't solve the performance problems with any of the various GUI applications, nor does it solve my problem for other applications that I want to run.
> By the way, do you know the app https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus that can generate app bundles on a Mac?
I do! I tried this route first, but it falls apart when you start a GUI application from the script that you supply to platypus. If your script is e.g. `wezterm start`, it'll just start up another instance of a wezterm-branded GUI app in addition to the wrapper app that Platypus spits out.
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The Icelandic Saga Database
Random fact; this website is created and maintained by Sveinbjörn Þórðarson who also made Platypus (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Platypus) and Sloth (https://github.com/sveinbjornt/Sloth) — software that Mac nerds might be familiar with.
Sveinbjörn is a ball of energy that just radiates positives for human society.
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How to easily share a small CLI script with non-technical coworkers?
Not sure if I understood the question properly but I found this program for Macs the other day: Platypus. It will create a .app out of any scrap of code.
Shoes
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Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
As someone who has looked at Shoes several times but never dove in, it's confusing how Shoes 4 has been the "preview version" of Shoes for, like, a decade or more. It made me actively avoid getting invested in Shoes 3 (the release promoted on the linked website) because Shoes 4 requires JRuby and I am happy with CRuby (the Ruby interpreter most people think of when they hear "Ruby").
https://github.com/shoes/shoes4/
http://www.rubydoc.info/github/shoes/shoes4
No disrespect to the developers but to me it feels like taking over a GUI toolkit created "to teach programming to everyone" (to quote the Shoes 4 readme) and making it depend upon a super-complicated enterprise-focused Ruby was sort of Missing The Point™ in a huge way.
Heck I couldn't even switch to JRuby if I wanted to because I <3 Ractors and JRuby still lacks CRuby 3.0 feature parity: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/issues/7459
What are some alternatives?
hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua
Glimmer - DSL Framework consisting of a DSL Engine and a Data-Binding Library used in Glimmer DSL for SWT (JRuby Desktop Development GUI Framework), Glimmer DSL for Opal (Pure Ruby Web GUI), Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for Tk (Ruby Tk Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for GTK (Ruby-GNOME Desktop Development GUI Library), Glimmer DSL for XML (& HTML), and Glimmer DSL for CSS
Sloth - Mac app that shows all open files, directories, sockets, pipes and devices in use by all running processes. Nice GUI for lsof.
qtbindings - An easy to install gem version of the Ruby bindings to Qt
blueutil - CLI for bluetooth on OSX: power, discoverable state, list, inquire devices, connect, info, …
RubyGnome2 - A set of bindings for the GNOME libraries to use from Ruby.
spaces-renamer - 💻 Ability to rename desktop spaces on macOS 10.10+ (NOT CURRENTLY WORKING ON 14.4)
Humanizer - Very simple captcha with Rails 3 & 4 & 5 & 6 & 7 support
mySIMBL - :package: Plugin manager for macOS
GoogleVisualr - A Ruby Gem for the Google Visualization API. Write Ruby code. Generate Javascript. Display a Google Chart.
SubEthaEdit - General purpose plain text editor for macOS. Widely known for its live collaboration feature.
glimmer-dsl-libui - Glimmer DSL for LibUI - Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Library - The Quickest Way From Zero To GUI - If You Liked Shoes, You'll Love Glimmer! - No need to pre-install any prerequisites. Just install the gem and have platform-independent GUI that just works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.