On Aug 30, 2013, at 21:22 , Filippo Fadda <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> If so, it's OK, I didn't look at the menu bar. There is not a normal UX 
> pattern. Some daemons add a config item in the System Preferences, some 
> others offer an "uninstall" procedure. But an icon on the menu bar, like 
> Dropbox, it's ok, I just didn't note it. Maybe the icon would be red and 
> animated for some seconds when the daemon starts, just to capture the user 
> attention.

Patches welcome https://github.com/janl/couchdb-mac-app :)

FWIW, this app used to be a real proper app and then *everybody* wanted this to 
be a menu bar item. So that happened :)

Jan
--

> 
> -Filippo
> 
> On Aug 30, 2013, at 8:39 PM, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
> 
>> Hey Filippo,
>> 
>> Thanks for the feedback. It actually runs in the menu bar, a little
>> black couch. I guess this is because users will often have it launched
>> at logon? What's the normal UX pattern for OSX user daemons?
>> 
>> A+
>> Dave
>> 
>> On 30 August 2013 13:46, Filippo Fadda <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> it works for me,
>>> 
>>> but a thing I don't like is that when you run the app, it doesn't appear on 
>>> the dock and to quit you have to use Activity Monitor.
>>> 
>>> Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
>>> 
>>> -Filippo
>>> 
>>> On Aug 30, 2013, at 11:31 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks Dave & Eli,
>>>> 
>>>> I’ve gotten a few more positives on IRC so I added the binary to
>>>> 
>>>>  https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/couchdb/binary/mac/1.4.0/rc.1/
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Jan
>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 30, 2013, at 11:24 , Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> After forgetting step 3 (no really), it works.
>>>>> 
>>>>> OSX 10.8.4 & OS 10.7.5 x64.
>>>>> 
>>>>> +1
>>>>> 
>>>>> SHIP IT.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 30 August 2013 10:34, Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Aug 30, 2013, at 00:53 , Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sorry it took a while.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Can you give this a little sanity check?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 1. Download 
>>>>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82149/Apache-CouchDB-1.4.0.zip
>>>>>>> 2. Double click to unzip
>>>>>>> 3. Make sure no other CouchDB is running (on port 5984)
>>>>>>> 4. Double click the “Apache CouchDB” App
>>>>>>> 5. Wait for Futon to show up in your default browser.
>>>>>> 5.5 Run “Verify Installation”
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Sorry :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 6. You are done, please report your results here :)
>>>>>>> 7. Do *not* run the JS test suite.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>>>>> Jan
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Aug 28, 2013, at 11:19 , Jan Lehnardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I’ll try to get the Mac version going later today.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>>> Jan
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Aug 28, 2013, at 10:27 , Dirkjan Ochtman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> I think we want to release binaries with the release. Are people
>>>>>>>>> available to build these today?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Release_Procedure#Preparing_the_Binary_Packages
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> We would like to release todayish because that would get 1.4.0 into
>>>>>>>>> the upcoming Ubuntu release cycle. This is a little late notice, I
>>>>>>>>> forgot about the Ubuntu thing and am currently at a Mozilla sprint in
>>>>>>>>> Paris.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Dirkjan
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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