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Re: Will the MacOS installer for v 1.4.1 be available soon?
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýHi R¨¦mi Rampin, Thank you for jumping into this thread. I am not a developer, but am a Mac user and have picked up linux (broadly speaking) as a hobby. I'd be happy to help out however I can to prepare a Mac installer for v 1.4.1. For example, if you shared any notes about the steps you have followed in the past
attempts, maybe I could try making my own attempt. This is admittedly a naive suggestion on my part - it sounds difficult actually - but at least I have enought motivation and a Mac to apply toward the challenge.
Concerning highlighting - I thought of an example where I've seen overlapping highlighting work really well. It is in the reference manager Sci Wheel. That online app has a highlighting and annotation feature where multiple colors can be used and they generally
have never blocked out the text from getting too dark. I wonder if we can copy some tactic from them.
Taguette is an awesome tool and I do hope we can find a way to foster its development.? Kind regards,
Nicolas A. Balcom Raleigh, M.A.
Doctoral Researcher (V?it?skirjatutkija) - Futures Studies Research
Area: Futures Literacy & Climate Change Innovation
Finland Futures Research Centre - Turku School of Economics - University of TurkuUNESCO Co-Chair on Learning for Transformation and Planetary Futures From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of R¨¦mi Rampin via groups.io <remi@...>
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2025 9:29:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [taguette] Will the MacOS installer for v 1.4.1 be available soon? ?
2025-03-03 10:49 UTC-05, Nicolas Balcom Raleigh via <nabara=[email protected]>:
Hi Nick and everyone,
Building the MacOS installer has always been a problem. I don't have a Mac machine and Apple keeps changing their requirements for building/signing apps, which has caused a lot of issues in the past where our users weren't able to start the application.
I am planning to give this another try, getting access to a Mac VM and setting up the whole build process, but I keep running into code signing issues. Even if I do everything correctly, users still run into the "application cannot be verified" which trip
a lot of them (need to right-click > open > accept the warning).
The best case scenario would be to find somebody more experience with the Apple ecosystem to help with this aspect of releasing Taguette. Nevertheless I hope to get another installer built in the near future. Installing via Docker or Pip are other options
but they are definitely not as friendly to non-developers.
About the colors for tags, the main issue is that highlights can have multiple colors. There have been multiple attempts at bringing this to life, but this fact keeps tripping us. We have attempted things like a vertical gradient (but it quickly becomes
unreadable) or a sidebar (but it is difficult to program reliably and still not very usable with short highlights). Another issues is highlights that overlap, partially or totally. We are open to suggestions from the community.
The development of Taguette has also been slowed down since I no longer have much free time to dedicate to it. I apologize about that.
Best regards
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R¨¦mi Rampin
The developer
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