Copy paste of items (links and plain text) macOS about sleek

[ransome1]

Hi @indiewelt . Thanks for submitting the issue. I could not reproduce it on either Linux or Windows, but I did some digging and learned, that for MacOS I need to do some extra steps, before copy and and pasting will be working. I will fix it in the next release. Only problem is, that I won't get my hands on an Apple machine for the next two months at least and therefor won't be able to build new releases.

But what I do is labeling this issue with "help wanted" and maybe some Mac user can build the next release for me and add it to the next release.

[intrepidsilence]

I am willing to help by building the release. Contact me and we can get it done.

[ransome1]

sorry, my mistake, it's npm run dist

[intrepidsilence]

Sent!

[ransome1]

@intrepidsilence . That would be great. Do you know how it works?

If not:

1. Install NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm
2. Fork sleek and pull the master branch or simply download the master branch as a zip here on Github and extract it
3. Open the package.json file and change this line "dist": "electron-builder -wl --publish always", to "dist": "electron-builder -m --publish never",
4. Use terminal and switch into sleeks folder and run npm dist

That should build the .dmg file. If that worked we can figure out if the fix worked and upload it here.

[intrepidsilence]

Are you sure npm dist is correct? That does not seem to work.

[intrepidsilence]

Looks like I need electron-builder, too. Looking now...

[ransome1]

Try a npm install, it should install electron builder if I'm not mistaken.

[intrepidsilence]

Yes, that worked but apparently it is too new - what version of EB do I need?

❯ npm run dist

[email protected] dist
electron-builder -m --publish never

• electron-builder version=22.10.5 os=20.3.0
• loaded configuration file=package.json ("build" field)
⨯ Cannot compute electron version from installed node modules - none of the possible electron modules are installed and version ("^12.0.0") is not fixed in project.
See electron-userland/electron-builder#3984 (comment)

[ransome1]

I'm building with 22.9.1

[intrepidsilence]

Bingo! How would you like me to get you the build dmg? Also, do you have a test regimen that you go through with builds before releasing them?

[intrepidsilence]

I have performed initial tests and everything seems to be working, including pasting into an editor field.

[ransome1]

I was writing to ask you for quick test :)

It won't propably work, but can you try to upload the dmg to a comment here? It will propably clash by it's file size. You could upload it to some file hoster like wetransfer and send me the link.

[intrepidsilence]

Yep, it is too big. Looking for a good method now...

[intrepidsilence]

wetransfer needs a TO email address. Is there one you can share here?

[ransome1]

you can use ransome [AT] uber.space

[ransome1]

Hi @indiewelt, thanks to @intrepidsilence we now have a MacOS build in which the copy&paste of text should be working: https://github.com/ransome1/sleek/releases/download/v0.9.3/sleek-0.9.3.dmg

[indiewelt]

Hi @ransome1 and @intrepidsilence - Thank you two so much - I just tested it and it works. It was amazing to see how you solved it in no time. I don't understand what this behaviour has caused but I am happy that it works now. Have a nice weekend.

[intrepidsilence]

Just happy that I was able to help out.