It’s here. A packaged release of Steem Notifier. It’s now super easy for people to try the app.

Steem Notifier is a minimal desktop app that sends notifications about your steem account through your native operating systems notification interface.

New Features

1 - Packaged for release on macOS, Windows & Linux, you can download these from Github.
Please note these have only been tested on macOS

Packages are now easily buildable for yourself once the repo is cloned. Use the NPM scripts listed in package.json to build from source.

npm install
npm run package-mac
npm run package-win
npm run package-linux

2 - Notifier now includes an option to save a default user. If you’re using the app continuously when turning off your computer or closing the app, previously you would need to re-enter your username.

You can now select to store your username and it will bypass the initial input screen when re-opening the app.

3 - A new context Menu on Right Clicking the taskbar icon has been added for quick access to clearing the default user and quitting the app when all other windows have been closed.

Improvements

In previous versions of notifier it used a custom binary of the node-notifier app, this allowed for custom icon images on notifications. I was able to implement the custom icons using the built in notification system for Electron and thus have been able to remove node-notifier.app.

With the change in notification implementation, notifications now persist correctly in the notification centre.

UX flow has been improved with the ability to skip the initial screen for returning users.

The title bar on macOS bas been removed to be more inline with OS styles. Windows/Linux are un-effected.

Bug Fixes

A number of bugs have been fixed in this release.

• Fixed vote power bar + info not loading.
• Fix incorrect name on comment notifications where the name would be the receiving user not the sender.
• Fixed multiple tabs opening when clicking links. Previously a click on a notification would open all previous notification links (this could be a lot if the app had been running awhile), where it should only open the single link relevant to the notification clicked.
• Fix app crash when computer wakes from sleep.
• Other small miscellaneous fixes

Contributions

Contributions, ideas and suggestions are wellcombed and encoraged. Particularly if anyone is able to help test for crashes/bugs on Windows/Linux. This release has only been tested on macOS latest.

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View Development commits in PR#7 - https://github.com/code-with-sam/steem-notifier/pull/7

View releases page on github for downloads - Here

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Let me know what you think.

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