Please add AppImage format build.

[gavriva]

Hi,

I have been playing with terminix(tilix) for some time, tried some modifications, but each time it was a pain.
Just difficult to have several version of gsettings schema or resources. So I decided to pack it into AppImage.

http://appimage.org/

Below my simply script to create AppImage, I think it is better than use sudo ./install.sh during development at least.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ ! -f tilix ]; then
    echo "The tilix executable does not exist, please run 'dub build --build=release' before using this script"
    exit 1
fi

if [ ! -f appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage ]; then
    wget https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/releases/download/continuous/appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage
    chmod +x appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage
fi

# Check availability of required commands
COMMANDS="glib-compile-schemas glib-compile-resources msgfmt desktop-file-validate xdg-desktop-menu gtk-update-icon-cache gdk-pixbuf-pixdata"
PACKAGES="coreutils glib2 glib2 gettext desktop-file-utils xdg-utils gtk-update-icon-cache"
i=0
for COMMAND in $COMMANDS; do
    type $COMMAND >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
        j=0
        for PACKAGE in $PACKAGES; do
            if [ $i = $j ]; then
                break
            fi
            j=$(( $j + 1 ))
        done
        echo "Your system is missing command $COMMAND, please install $PACKAGE"
        exit 1
    }
    i=$(( $i + 1 ))
done


rm -rf tilix.app
mkdir -p tilix.app

echo "Copying and compiling schema..."
cp data/gsettings/com.gexperts.Tilix.gschema.xml tilix.app/
glib-compile-schemas tilix.app/

echo "Building and copy resources..."
cd data/resources
glib-compile-resources tilix.gresource.xml
cd -
mkdir -p tilix.app/data/tilix/resources
cp data/resources/tilix.gresource tilix.app/data/tilix/resources

mkdir -p tilix.app/data

#echo "Copying scripts..."
#cp -r data/scripts tilix.app/data

echo "Copying color schemes..."
mkdir -p tilix.app/data/tilix/schemes
cp -r data/schemes tilix.app/data/tilix

# Compile po files
echo "Copying and installing localization files"
for f in po/*.po; do
    echo "Processing $f"
    LOCALE=$(basename "$f" .po)
    msgfmt $f -o "${LOCALE}.mo"
    mkdir -p tilix.app/data/locale/${LOCALE}/LC_MESSAGES
    cp "${LOCALE}.mo" tilix.app/data/locale/${LOCALE}/LC_MESSAGES/tilix.mo
    rm -f "${LOCALE}.mo"
done

echo "#!/bin/sh
export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=\$APPDIR
export XDG_DATA_DIRS=\${XDG_DATA_DIRS}:\$APPDIR/data
exec \$APPDIR/tilix \$@
" >tilix.app/AppRun
chmod 0555 tilix.app/AppRun

# Generate desktop file
msgfmt --desktop --template=data/pkg/desktop/com.gexperts.Tilix.desktop.in -d po -o tilix.app/tilix.desktop
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Note that localizating appdata requires a newer version of xgettext, copying instead"
    cp data/pkg/desktop/com.gexperts.Tilix.desktop.in tilix.app/tilix.desktop
fi

#desktop-file-validate tilix.app/tilix.desktop

echo "Copy icon"
cp data/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/com.gexperts.Tilix.png tilix.app/

cp tilix tilix.app/

./appimagetool-x86_64.AppImage tilix.app tilix.AppImage

[probonopd]

Thank you. By the way, also see #25

[gnunn1]

As I stated in #25, I don't have any interest in maintaining an appimage for tilix. Having said that, if you want to submit this script as a PR in an experimental/appimage folder I'd be fine with taking it there.

[bilelmoussaoui]

@gnunn1 I think it's possible to create the AppImage automatically using travis! at least that's whaty the electron apps guys do

[probonopd]

Yes, sure, a lot of applications automatically build and upload AppImages using Travis CI.

[gnunn1]

@bil-elmoussaoui that would be fine as well, however the use case here is using an appimage for local development which would need a script.

I just want it clear that I'm not supporting appimage officially in the sense I will hunt down bugs specific to it. Basically the same stance I take with KDE, i3, etc or package specific issues.

[gnunn1]

Fixed sentence to read "I'm not officially supporting appimage..."

[muzzol]

reviving this issue to ask if devs have changed their mind around it.

AppImage is a great format for systems where user can't install anything.