Finder App Extension

[aonez]

Suggested here #248 (comment) by @gingerbeardman.

• Add Finder Sync extension (since v1.2.0)
• Add basic operations (since v1.2.0)
• Replace the current services 👉 They can both cohexist, services can be called from the menu with key modifiers.
• Add one option to encrypt (suggested in a Chinese review by lancezone) and by @Gahamelas in Ask for password when drag and dropping on keka #566
• Add custom entries specifying compression/extraction options and w/o GUI interaction
  • Add custom split option (requested by Guy Heirich via mail)
  • (suggested by @Darklocq) Droplets (and command-line one-task variants) #502
  • Also suggested here by Wyatt Let the user choose the configuration on "Send to Keka" service #197

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Some doc:

• https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/General/Conceptual/Extensibility...
• https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2018/09/finder-sync-extension

[NewsGuyTor]

Thanks, really looking forward to this.

My preference would be a context menu with a sub-menu, like this:

While having the menu be completely customizable would be best, the most important for me is to have both an "Extract here" and an "Extract to 'nameofzip/'" option there.

[aonez]

@NewsGuyTor note that the current 1.2.0 beta already has a simple menu:

It has some file access limitations though. I'll add more options like those you mentioned for sure.

[aonez]

Forgot to mention it is limited to the Desktop, at the moment.

[NewsGuyTor]

Good progress, looking forward to using it when it's ready. This is one thing that has always annoyed me with macOS compared to Windows (that you can't simply right click and chose between extracting in the same folder and extracting in a subfolder), but thankfully that is getting fixed! :)

BTW, IMO the menu should just be named "Keka" instead of "Open with Keka". In my mind you don't really open files you compress.

[gingerbeardman]

Aside:

A new app that allows custom Context Menu in macOS.

• Service Station https://apps.apple.com/us/app/service-station/id1503136033?ls=1/

Other apps:

• ContextMenu https://apps.apple.com/us/app/context-menu/id1236813619?mt=12
• FiScript https://github.com/Mortennn/FiScript

(I'm still using ContextMenu for a number of reasons)

[aonez]

FiScript https://github.com/Mortennn/FiScript

@gingerbeardman never tried this one but I'm a big fan of @Mortennn's Dozer app.

[gingerbeardman]

Morten said it's inspired by ContextMenu, very similar. Not quite as fully featured as CM though

[L1cardo]

@NewsGuyTor note that the current 1.2.0 beta already has a simple menu:

It has some file access limitations though. I'll add more options like those you mentioned for sure.

I installed the beta version, but i did not see any changes

[gingerbeardman]

I installed the beta version, but i did not see any changes

You need to activate it

[L1cardo]

I installed the beta version, but i did not see any changes

You need to activate it

I did activate the finder extension, but nothing appeared 😂

[aonez]

You’ve checked on the Desktop?

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[L1cardo]

You’ve checked on the Desktop?

On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 at 14:52, Licardo notifications@github.com wrote:

I installed the beta version, but i did not see any changes

You need to activate it

[image: Screen shot 2020-04-22 at 13 49 00]
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/49612/79983761-1a5a9800-84a0-11ea-9c62-0677af9b12d5.png

I did activate the finder extension, but nothing appeared 😂

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Neither a desktop folder nor a file worked

[gingerbeardman]

True, enough, I only just installed 1.20 and I do not see the menu after activating the extension.

[aonez]

@L1cardo what macOS version? @gingerbeardman that on 10.15?

[aonez]

Note that the extension was built with a minimum requirement of 10.14 (Mojave) by error. The next revision will be 10.10+.

[L1cardo]

@L1cardo what macOS version? @gingerbeardman that on 10.15?

10.15.4 (19E287)

[aonez]

That's odd... Can you check in the Console.app -> system.log if there's some log about com.aone.keka.KekaFinderIntegration

[L1cardo]

[gingerbeardman]

I'm on Mojave 10.14.6 (18G4032)

Nothing in console system.log

[aonez]

Can you try this Keka-findersync build? I've enabled all paths in this version. Note it will only work properly where Keka has file access (this will change in the future). Use this build only for this test purpose, it has some changes in the extraction/compression code that are only 99.99% tested.

Also note that if you have any other 1.2.0 build macOS might load that Finder extension. You can always look in the Activity Monitor what extension is loaded:

Restarting the Finder reloads the extension, if needed.

[L1cardo]

Unfortunately , this build can not be opened.
I reinstalled keka, can not be opened either.

[aonez]

@L1cardo maybe you need to restart macOS? I don't really know what's happening there.

[L1cardo]

@L1cardo maybe you need to restart macOS? I don't really know what's happening there.

have tried that, nothing happend

[aonez]

Any message in the Console.app, filtered by Keka? Select your Mac in the Devices section in the left menu.

[L1cardo]

Any message in the Console.app, filtered by Keka? Select your Mac in the Devices section in the left menu.

Nothing, cause keka can not even be opened.

[aonez]

I reinstalled keka, can not be opened either.

Not even the stable 1.1.26 version?

[L1cardo]

I reinstalled keka, can not be opened either.

Not even the stable 1.1.26 version?

Previous 1.2.0 beta is fine except for finder extension. but the new build you sent me can not be opened

[aonez]

@L1cardo try this one:
https://github.com/aonez/Keka/releases/download/dev-test-builds/Keka-findersync.dmg.zip

[L1cardo]

@L1cardo try this one:
https://github.com/aonez/Keka/releases/download/dev-test-builds/Keka-findersync.dmg.zip

This one is good

[aonez]

Released in the latest dev build: v1.2.0-dev.3901

[gingerbeardman]

Can we hide the icon?

[NewsGuyTor]

Really nice!

It would be cool if the options changed depending on wether an extractable file were right clicked or not. As mentioned above I would also prefer the menu to just be titled "Keka" instead of "Open with Keka".

[aonez]

@gingerbeardman @NewsGuyTor next build has some configuration:

options changed depending on wether an extractable file were right clicked or not

Thought on that and eventually just limited the option if a folder is clicked. Apart from the performance impact of checking the file signature, you may want to compress an already compressed file or try to extract a file that might have an unknown signature for Keka but may be extracted anyway.

[aonez]

It seems  is changing the Finder Extensions menu item placement in Big Sur...

Beta 2:

Beta 3:

[beResonant]

+1 for the ability to leverage hdiutil's split image file capability. It's an option and a parameter (split size). This would give the tool parity with the other algorithms and potentially enable backup of files containing characters native to MacOS that aren't supported in cloud syncing services (e.g. OneDrive, doesn't support : | \ * in filenames)

[aonez]

@beResonant where was that feedback destined? Surely not to this issue 😅

[beResonant]

My bad?! apologies! 😅

I didn't want to post a new issue if one for what I was thinking already existed. I searched for "split dmg" and saw something in the to-do list at the top that looked like what I thought was the capability to make multi-part .dmg files. Sorry!

Do you think what I wrote is a new "issue?" Do you have a place you prefer for feature requests?

THanks!