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Package TM Switcher as Signed Bundle #39

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brenapp opened this issue Oct 24, 2024 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #40
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Package TM Switcher as Signed Bundle #39

brenapp opened this issue Oct 24, 2024 · 0 comments · May be fixed by #40
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brenapp commented Oct 24, 2024

This project is pretty complete regarding features, but it struggles with the release process. We are releasing the TM Switcher as a bare, unsigned executable for Mac OS and Windows. This causes many issues for usability (#38, #37) and limits the future scope of this project. Moreover, future updates to Mac OS will further limit how users can run unsigned executables they download from the internet.

We should be moving towards releasing a signed application bundle that users are more familiar with. This issue will serve as a tracking issue. There are 2 main approaches to achieve this goal.

Executable + Packaged Terminal Emulator
Continue to build TM Switcher as an independent executable, but package a desktop application that hosts and provides a terminal emulator. This is a bit more modular and would not change end-user behavior. However, we are limiting ourselves to a terminal-based UI.

To accomplish this, we should do the following:

  1. Migrate TM Switcher to use Deno as a runtime, which has better support for compiling to a static executable.
  2. Create a Tauri (probably) based web application host that can run the static binary and shuttle information between a frontend and the hosted application binary.

Custom UI in a Desktop Application

  1. Migrate TM Switcher to be a web server running in Node JS.
  2. Write a Web UI that interacts with the TM Switcher process server.
  3. Host the TM Switcher and the Web UI in a (probably Electron) wrapper.
@brenapp brenapp added the enhancement New feature or request label Oct 24, 2024
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