Desktop app native support for mac

The desktop app feels like a webpage running standalone at the moment, particularly on mac where it has a bunch of features that just don’t work right for the OS at all. This issue is to track the broken components as well as features to make it feel more like a native app, and assist development and debugging.

If there are any non-mac issues that are raised here, please leave a comment so we can track appropriately. For individual fixes or features it might be worth having a proper github project. Also, someone to test on Linux.

This is all the major stuff I can think of but I’m sure there’s more. TL;DR app should feel native on the platform instead of a wrapper, and not have weird windowing bugs.

Bugs (mac):

• closing the window reloads app and adds a new icon to menubar (so you get multiple icons)
• app is constantly in menubar plus dock, and highlighted even when not targeted in menubar
• settings can’t be opened by global preferences shortcut
• missing app icon
• language selector - use system preference or settings override
• version in app header unnecessary - use “about teamcraft” in menu
• nav has scrollbar from unnecessary elements (about, settings, maybe user account block)
• close/quit on minimise isn’t really how macs roll
• minimised in tray setting opens TC but you can’t open any windows

Updater (mac):

• implement squirrel for mac
• make the “add shortcut” setting windows only

Features (mac/other?):

• native windowing - custom titlebar (like discord, not necessary for linux/win), nice to have, not required
• investigate clickthrough
• settings should be a full-view modal page, overlaying the current page but not replacing it (see discord/slack)
• menubar icon should have preferences/alarm groups/mute/quick-macro-translate
• menubar icon should have an indicator for updates available
• menubar icon should have a toggle for packet capture once supported (superseded by #1789)
• packet capture should check if windows, not desktop (superseded by incoming native packet capture)
• overlays should allow 3 finger dragging and not just the small resize button
• setting to exit app when closing, vs hide from dock and keep in menubar
• add debug menu to view->developer->toggle developer tools

[ayyaruq]

@SapphicFire I’ve straight up not had any time to work on this but if you swing by our discord I’m more than happy to answer any questions, run by how I’d structure this, or just point you in the right direction if you need it. I think there’s some more general changes we need to make to how the app initialises which will make all this much easier but we need to make a start on that at some point anyway.

[SapphicFire]

Commenting to remind myself later, would like to offer my hand and start looking at this.