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macOS status #96

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Cosmicding

Cosmicding is a bookmarks companion app for COSMIC™ Desktop Environment.
It allows storing bookmarks locally, and syncing bookmarks with remote providers.

While Cosmicding was designed for COSMIC™ Desktop Environment, it may run cross-platform (#24, tested on Linux, and macOS).

Features:

• Store bookmarks locally.
• Support remote bookmarks providers:
  • linkding
• Aggregate bookmarks from multiple providers.
• Add/Edit/Remove bookmarks.
• Search bookmarks based on title, URL, tags, description, and notes.
• Import/Export bookmarks.

Cosmicding has been tested with linkding releases >= 1.31.0.

Installation

Remote

Cosmicding can be installed from remote sources in several ways:

Linux

• Download compiled binaries from GitHub release.

• Flatpak:

  flatpak install flathub com.vkhitrin.cosmicding

macOS

• Download DMG from GitHub release.

• Using brew:

  brew tap vkhitrin/tap
  brew install --cask vkhitrin/tap/cosmicding

Local Install (compiled binary)

Dependencies (Linux):

• cargo
• just
• libxkbcommon-dev
• libcosmic
• libsqlite3-dev
• cosmic-icons

Dependencies (macOS):

• brew
• cargo
• just
• libxkbcommon
• sqlite3
• cosmic-icons (can be fetched using brew brew install --HEAD vkhitrin/tap/cosmic-icons-theme)

A workaround is required for macOS to display icons correctly, refer to #96.

Installation:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/vkhitrin/cosmicding

# Change directory to the project folder
cd cosmicding

# Build Release version
just build-release

# Install
sudo just install

Local Install (flatpak)

# Ensure flathub remote is added to user
flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak-builder --force-clean \
                --sandbox \
                --user \
                --install \
                --install-deps-from=flathub \
                --ccache \
                --mirror-screenshots-url=https://dl.flathub.org/media/ \
                --repo=flatpak-repo builddir \
                res/flatpak/com.vkhitrin.cosmicding.yaml

Acknowledgments

cosmic-utils organization for their code examples.
@sissbruecker for creating linkding.
system76 for creating COSMIC, and making it fun to develop for.

Translations:

• Swedish - @bittin

Icon:

• Link logo from https://iconoir.com/.