Include libunity in Linux target

[JakobDev]

• Electron-Builder Version:
  24.9.1

• Node Version:
  21.5.0

• Electron Version:
  28.9.0

• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly):
  stable

• Target:
  Linux

Electron needs libunity for showing a badge and the progress in the window icon. This lib should be included in the Linux target, as it is not pre-installed on most systems.

[mmaietta]

This sounds like a new requirement in newer electron versions? Can you try adding libunity to the linux depends configuration and see if that resolves your issue? Would like confirmation first before making changes to the code base.

[JakobDev]

This sounds like a new requirement in newer electron versions?

No. This is very old, but it is not documented. It is needed for setProgressBar and setBadgeCount to work on Linux. If Electron can't find this lib, these function just don't work and Electron don't show a Error at all.

Can you try adding libunity to the linux depends configuration and see if that resolves your issue?

You mean the DEB package?

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[mmaietta]

@JakobDev I found where the default values are coming from, they were located in an upstream dependency app-builder-bin. I've moved the logic into electron-builder, just need to know from you where libunity is supposed to go. Which target does it apply to?

electron-builder/packages/app-builder-lib/src/targets/FpmTarget.ts

Lines 288 to 311 in a86afcd

	private getDefaultDepends(target: string): string[] {
	switch (target) {
	case "deb":
	return ["libgtk-3-0", "libnotify4", "libnss3", "libxss1", "libxtst6", "xdg-utils", "libatspi2.0-0", "libuuid1", "libsecret-1-0"]
	case "rpm":
	return [
	"gtk3" /* for electron 2+ (electron 1 uses gtk2, but this old version is not supported anymore) */,
	"libnotify",
	"nss",
	"libXScrnSaver",
	"(libXtst or libXtst6)",
	"xdg-utils",
	"at-spi2-core" /* since 5.0.0 */,
	"(libuuid or libuuid1)" /* since 4.0.0 */,
	]
	case "pacman":
	return ["c-ares", "ffmpeg", "gtk3", "http-parser", "libevent", "libvpx", "libxslt", "libxss", "minizip", "nss", "re2", "snappy", "libnotify", "libappindicator-gtk3"]
	default:
	return []
	}
	}