MacOS alternative

[vinhowe]

Anyone aware of a tool that does what Dragon does on MacOS? I know this is off topic but I figure if anyone would know, it would be the people here.

[hasnolen]

Not really an alternative, but more of a lead; it doesn't work fully, when I compile dragon from source, the window appears, I'm able to select the item, but as soon as my mouse is off the palette, it outputs:

(dragon:24243): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:01:31.537: Cannot load drag icon from icon name text-x-generic

(dragon:24243): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:01:31.537: Cannot load drag icon from icon name text-x-generic

(dragon:24243): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 22:01:31.537: _cairo_surface_extents: assertion 'surface != NULL' failed

which they are apparently making some headway at here.

[hasnolen]

Oh although the fix is claimed to have been merged in 3.24.30, which I already have https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/commit/d4e2d05cd9518ba04d6fbe1cbcec27142788ac95

• Fix a crash with Drag-and-Drop

❯ brew info gtk+3
gtk+3: stable 3.24.30 (bottled)

[mkj]

Quicksilver. It has a qs cmdline tool that opens the argument in the quicksilver overlay, you can drag or perform quicksilver operations.

I've missed it since shifting to Linux, Dragon looks good!

[ijoseph]

Took me a minute, but boy that is an arcane but useful tool. It's basically renegade, open-source, minimally-maintained (if at all?) Spotlight or Alfred. Install with brew.

For those following along at home, the command line tool qs is actually a plugin that you have to manually install via this GUI (in addition to Quicksilver itself):

[nikitabobko]

I use open -R /path/to/file. It reveals the file in Finder. Not a perfect replacement but good enough for some of the use cases

[cstrahan]

There's some discussion over at nik012003/ripdrag#19. I ultimately bought Yoink off the app store and set up a alias yoink='open -a Yoink' alias (not affiliated with them in any way). Others have suggested doing something like open -e path/to/file and using the proxy icon in the editor app's tittle bar for drag-and-drop. And, of course, the open -R path/to/file approach works too.

[ThSGM]

I'm wondering if someone has managed to source an alternative or get ripdrag working for Mac.

I did manage to locate this one: Wevah/dragterm#2

and it does work, albeit with problems being a non-exiting process. Ripdrag looks much more promising, but I'm confused at its current status for Mac.

I used the pre-built version located here: Wevah/dragterm#2 (comment)