Road to Cross-platform

[DSPaul]

Analysis of the workload and feasibility of switching from WPF to AvaloniaUI, to make COMPASS work on Linux and Mac.

• Replace all windows-only code
  • Adopt Mvvm toolkit (for commands and property changed events)
  • Replace Attached Properties with styled properties
  • Replace Auto update with custom solution
  • Replace Drag and drop with cross platform alternative (more research needed)
  • Replace messagebox with cross platform alternative or write from scratch (more research needed)
  • Changes required to ISBN barcode scanner
  • Replace DotNetZip with SharpCompress
  • Managing unhandled exceptions works differently
  • Cross platform keyboard shortcuts
  • File system interactions (save, load, ect.)
  • File dialogs (select file/folder, ect.)
  • Windows management (minimize, maximize, ect.)
  • User preferences
  • Replace MsTest with NUnit
• Rewrite UI in Avalonia
  • Find different way to get Icons
  • Find different way of rendering gifs for loading animation
  • Find alternative for some controls like 5 star rating, multi select combobox, virtualizing stackpanel, ect.
  • Redo all views
    • Side panels
    • Title bar
    • Layouts
      • Home
      • Tile
      • List
      • Card
    • Edit item
    • Edit tag
    • Export wizard
    • Import wizard
    • Metadata resolver
    • Settings
    • Notifications
    • Various dialogs
• Make cross platform installer/release pipeline

[sirkerry]

Glad to see a Linux version of this is being planned.

[develroo]

Ditto. It looks quite a nice tool and I think it would be advantageous to be cross-platform, not least because more Linux users are happy to lend a helping hand with bug fixes and updating documentation.

Extra Tux points if you can package it as a flatpak. ;)

[coreytyhurst]

Getting close. THANK YOU for everything you have done with this program so far. Cross-platform is going to be HUGE for us Linux nerds, and hopefully it will also make the project more durable over time as more people can contribute to it.

[sebkunmv]

Hi there. When you're ready, IF you need a Mac user to beta test. Feel free to reach out. I'd be glad to help.

Kudo to your amazing work.

[DSPaul]

The first alpha for Linux is available in the releases page