Boostnote: Known bugs

[Rokt33r]

• Press ESC to watch the preview message hampers editting the bottom line of editor screen

[gromain]

Also, regarding the selection, when the number of lines is higher than the height of the screen, and the editor is completely at the bottom, selecting in the editor leads to the page scrolling up (and selecting all the text in between).

[gromain]

Boostnote doesn't close (on Linux). It stays in the background when closed, and cannot be restarted without killing the process.

[Rokt33r]

@gromain Thanks, I'll check it.

[the-c0d3r]

I have a similar problem like that. When I place the cursor somewhere by clicking, it selects a whole bunch of lines above it automatically. And the message Press ESC to watch the preview is covering up the text when I'm writing on the bottom line. The temporary solution I did was to create empty lines under the last line, so the line I'm currently writing is not covered by that message.

[Rokt33r]

@the-c0d3r Thanks for your reporting! I'm currently fixing that problem.

[Rokt33r]

@the-c0d3r @gromain
I fixed the bug about selection. I'll release the fixed build on tomorrow!
I really appreciate your help.

Press ESC to watch the preview is covering up ...
I'm currently thinking how should I solve that problem. Please wait a little.

Boostnote doesn't close properly on Linux.
I'm currently checking now. It might be fixed it tomorrow.

[Rokt33r]

@gromain

Boostnote doesn't close properly on Linux.

I checked it and it was intended feature. It hides by default when click close button on window. This is because, app should remain for search window and quick write popup(coming on v0.6.*).
Actually it can be easily close completely on Windows and OSX by pressing Cmd/Ctrl + Q.
but on Linux, it doesn't seem to work. (I checked it on Xfce Ubuntu and I'll do it again on Unity)

Btw, Could you tell me which desktop environment you are using?
I'll check the behaviour of it and fix it better!

[Rokt33r]

@gromain I think we should talk about it on #5
Btw, I checked it on Unity, and Unity also doesn't work well.

[Rokt33r]

@gromain
I changed my mind. It seems to be impossible to implement Finder window and Tray icon now.
And, I know it is not so important features of Boostnote. These features will be removed on Linux for awhile.
So, I'll make Boostnote quit properly when main window closed. :)
Please wait for a couple of day to publish it!

Btw, could you teach me how I can publish Boostnote as a AUR package?

[gromain]

@Rokt33r I'm using Cinnamon (welcome to the linux diversity! ;) ).

For the AUR, the first step is to write a PKGBUILD. It's basically a file that describe the installation in a script (all the steps you would have to type into a command line for the installation). Some more information here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD

Also, read the wiki page on the AUR: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository
It describe all the steps needed for getting a package into AUR.

[Rokt33r]

@gromain Thanks a lot! I'll check them also! 💃

[gromain]

A good example (starting from the .deb file here: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=bitmeter-os

[gromain]

Example PKGBUILD for Boostnote:

# Maintainer: Rokt33r <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Romain Bazile <[email protected]>
pkgname=boostnote
pkgver=0.5.8
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Opensource note app for developer"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://b00st.io/"
license=('GPL')
groups=()
depends=()
makedepends=()
checkdepends=()
optdepends=()
provides=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
options=()
install=
changelog=

source=(
  "https://github.com/BoostIO/boost-releases/releases/download/v0.5.8/boost_0.5.8_amd64.deb"
)

noextract=()

md5sums=('df56bf3167dddb3eb2e1b263c65e61ba')

validpgpkeys=()

package() {
  tar -xa -f ${srcdir}/data.tar.xz
  cp -r "${srcdir}/usr" "${pkgdir}/usr"
}

I believe it works (at least for me, makepkg throw me no errors), I'll try installing the package later on, I'm in a business meeting! ;)

Edit: Replaced pkgname by boostnote as boost is already a package in Arch.

[gromain]

For the record, boost is standard c library.

[gromain]

And a better source line: source=( "https://github.com/BoostIO/boost-releases/releases/download/v$pkgver/boost_$pkgver_amd64.deb" )
Which will change automatically with the new version number the link to download the updated version.

[gromain]

Ok, here is a final clean version. I integrated the specific x86_64 calls, to make it cleaner.

# Maintainer: Rokt33r <[email protected]>
# Contributor: Romain Bazile <[email protected]>
pkgname=boostnote
pkgver=0.5.8
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Opensource note app for developer"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://b00st.io/"
license=('GPL')
groups=()
depends=()
makedepends=()
checkdepends=()
optdepends=()
provides=()
conflicts=()
replaces=()
backup=()
options=()
install=
changelog=

source_x86_64=( "https://github.com/BoostIO/boost-releases/releases/download/v$pkgver/boost_$pkgver_amd64.deb" )

noextract=()

md5sums_x86_64=('df56bf3167dddb3eb2e1b263c65e61ba')

validpgpkeys=()

package() {
  tar -xa -f ${srcdir}/data.tar.xz
  cp -r "${srcdir}/usr" "${pkgdir}/usr"
}

[Rokt33r]

@gromain As I wrote in #5, I'm going to publish Boostnote on UAR/PPA within this weekend.

I've fixed the problem 'app doesn't quit properly'. You can check it on master branch.

I really appreciate your help. 👍

[gromain]

This PKGBUILD works on my machine, and the installation is successful.
I believe the name of the executable will have to be changed/harmonised, as there already is a package named boost (as I said earlier), and it usually is good practice to have the name of the package be the same as the name of the binary (and here we have a package named boostnote and a binary named boost )

[Rokt33r]

Closed. The bug above won't bother anymore from v0.6.0