I finally spent some time to make a DMG for XUL Explorer. It doesn’t have fancy background images, but it seems to work. One thing that surprised me was the size, even when compressed – 18MB. Also, I find it hard to believe that the “standard” way of distributing software for the Mac is a disk image that the user needs to “drag-n-drop” on the Applications folder. Anyway.
Once installing XUL Explorer on my Mac, I did notice how poor the UI fit in with the Mac look. I’ll be working on that. I should have a Linux archive ready soon too.
Mac DMG: xulexplorer-0.3.dmg
The nice thing about drag-and-drop of applications to install them is that it typically takes much less time than running an installer utility like you usually have to do on Windows. Many popular Mac applications these days include a symlink to the /Applications folder on the disk image so that you can do the install by simply dragging to that link in the disk image’s window.
I have a .deb of 0.1 lying around. Drop a line if you’d rather not bother with packaging for Linux (or at least Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros), repackaging 0.3 is just a download & version bump away for me.