AppImage request

🦄Features
#1

Hello!

It would be immensely appreciated if you could provide an AppImage of Inkdrop. In addition to Ubuntu (where Inkdrop has worked great!), I also use a Linux distribution called NixOS, and due to NixOS’s design, it is rather difficult to package most closed source software – though AppImage would be trivial to support.

I’m a major contributor to (and package developer for) NixOS, and I would love to add seamless support for Inkdrop (and tell all of my NixOS friends to check out Inkdrop). Would it be possible for you to provide an AppImage build, pretty please? :smiley:

#2

Hi Charles,

Thank you for the suggestion.
Providing an AppImage would be nice.
Since I’m developing it alone and haven’t ever used NixOS, would you help me make it?
Here is the Snap package that would be helpful for making it:

#3

Hi Takuya,

Time permitting, I might see if I can help with an AppImage.

Other exciting news: I managed to write a NixOS package for Inkdrop that appears to be fully working (including plugins):

{ stdenv, alsaLib, atk, at-spi2-atk, cairo, cups, dbus, dpkg, expat, fontconfig, freetype
, fetchurl, gdk-pixbuf, glib, gtk2, gtk3, libpulseaudio, makeWrapper, nspr
, nss, pango, udev, xorg
, libuuid, at-spi2-core, libsecret
, coreutils
}:

let
  version = "5.2.1";

  deps = [
    libuuid
    libsecret
    alsaLib
    atk
    at-spi2-atk
    at-spi2-core
    cairo
    cups
    dbus
    expat
    fontconfig
    freetype
    gdk-pixbuf
    glib
    gtk2
    gtk3
    libpulseaudio
    nspr
    nss
    pango
    stdenv.cc.cc
    udev
    xorg.libX11
    xorg.libxcb
    xorg.libXcomposite
    xorg.libXcursor
    xorg.libXdamage
    xorg.libXext
    xorg.libXfixes
    xorg.libXi
    xorg.libXrandr
    xorg.libXrender
    xorg.libXScrnSaver
    xorg.libXtst
    xorg.libxkbfile
  ];

in

stdenv.mkDerivation {
  pname = "inkdrop";
  inherit version;

  src = fetchurl {
    url = "https://d3ip0rje8grhnl.cloudfront.net/v${version}/inkdrop_${version}_amd64.deb";
    hash = "sha256-JI0H25Bu7uk3ASMo65Gv1YxPc9tC+tAb7M7wFPMyvxk=";
  };

  dontBuild = true;
  buildInputs = [ dpkg makeWrapper ];

  unpackPhase = ''
    dpkg --fsys-tarfile $src | tar --extract
  '';

  installPhase = ''
    rm -r ./usr/share/lintian
    rm -r ./usr/share/doc

    mkdir -p $out
    cp -r ./usr/share $out
    cp -r ./usr/bin $out
    cp -r ./usr/lib $out

    patchelf --set-interpreter "$(cat $NIX_CC/nix-support/dynamic-linker)" \
             "$out/lib/inkdrop/inkdrop"

    patchelf --set-interpreter "$(cat $NIX_CC/nix-support/dynamic-linker)" \
             "$out/lib/inkdrop/resources/app/ipm/bin/node"

    wrapProgram $out/lib/inkdrop/inkdrop \
      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "$out/lib/inkdrop" \
      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${stdenv.lib.makeLibraryPath deps}"

    wrapProgram $out/lib/inkdrop/resources/app/ipm/bin/ipm \
      --prefix PATH : "${coreutils.out}/bin" \
      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "$out/lib/inkdrop" \
      --prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : "${stdenv.lib.makeLibraryPath deps}"
  '';

  meta = {
    homepage = "https://www.inkdrop.app/";
    description = "Organizing your Markdown notes made simple";
    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.unfreeRedistributable;
    platforms = [ "x86_64-linux" ];
    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.cstrahan ];
  };
}

I’ll see if I can get this merged into Nixpkgs.

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#4

That’s great news!
Thanks so much for the work :pray::raised_hands: