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The opened DMG installer window is not displaying the background image, which has the Jalview logo tiled background, the Jalview name (in correct font), and the beta-sheet arrow indicating how to install the app (also a git-commit and date in grey).
This is significant loss of user experience so worth pursuing.
The process by which a background image is added to the DMG file is a bit convoluted, specific and manual (as described in doc/README-DMG_creation.md). This is how install4j recommends adding the background image (it cannot do it directly itself).
The method to create the DS_Store file described here must be performed on a mac, but the resulting DS_Store file can be used on any machine building the DMG with install4j.
There have been some attempts to automate DS_Store creation, even using tools that run on linux. These could be explored further.
See https://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-3393
and https://github.com/create-dmg/create-dmg
Also (both work on macOS only):
https://github.com/LinusU/node-appdmg/tree/master
https://pypi.org/project/dmgbuild/
This is significant loss of user experience so worth pursuing.
The process by which a background image is added to the DMG file is a bit convoluted, specific and manual (as described in doc/README-DMG_creation.md). This is how install4j recommends adding the background image (it cannot do it directly itself).
The method to create the DS_Store file described here must be performed on a mac, but the resulting DS_Store file can be used on any machine building the DMG with install4j.
There have been some attempts to automate DS_Store creation, even using tools that run on linux. These could be explored further.
See https://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-3393
and https://github.com/create-dmg/create-dmg
Also (both work on macOS only):
https://github.com/LinusU/node-appdmg/tree/master
https://pypi.org/project/dmgbuild/
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JAL-3393 DMG opened Finder window improvements
- Reopened