On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:29:03PM +0100, Ingolf Schäfer wrote: > I am using TeXmacs on MacOS X and wonder, if there could be a better > integration of TeXmacs into the operating system. As a start, I have > made an applescript droplet, with which you can open .tm files with > double click out of the finder (it starts X11, if not already open > and opens the file in TeXmacs). > > Is there any interest, to add such a wrapper to the TeXmacs > distribution? If there is, then we might even consider relasing > TeXmacs as an application bundle, which does not depend one fink > (i.e. a binary TeXmacs with included guile), which could be installed > the Mac OS X way, by just copying the folder to your harddisk. I > volunteer to build such a bundle, if anyone, besides myself would > like one.
Sure, I recently got a powerbook myself, and I am pretty much convinced that both a droplet and an application bundle would be very useful. I made a droplet myself too, but have no idea about how to make it working elsewhere than on my laptop. As to an easy-to-install application bundle, probably extracted from fink or so, this would surely interest a lot of mac users. As to a more aqua-ish GUI, that would probably be much more work. > First, I would like to have a spotlight plugin, to get metadata out > of .tm files, for optimized searching. If I find time enough over the > holidays, I will do this myself. Sure, that would be nice. More generally, I am searching for someone who would like to work on some kind of searchable "TeXmacs file system" (independently from Mac users). But this is of course a much larger project, with one nice feature that it can be developed in a quite independent way from TeXmacs (and might be useful to other projects). > Second, the place of the user files in ~/.TeXmacs is rather > "unmacish". I would prefer that they are by default in ~/Library/ > TeXmacs, because this is the standard location or user files and > moreover you can view this folder directly in the Finder.app. One might add some #ifdef's to the source code to change the default path for TEXMACS_HOME_PATH. _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
