Hello! I noticed that the latest download shows a wrong version notation - it says 1.3 instead of 1.5

Linear frequently and seemingly arbitrarily finds itself in a state in which its window is repositions itself upon being resized. Restarting does not resolve the issue; it simply goes away after a while.

Here is a gif: http://g.recordit.co/AWZkd78L8I.gif.

I like to keep my home directory nice and clean, but Linear dumps a json file that is kind of annoying to have there for me. Would it be possible to put it into a hidden folder, or anywhere else besides the home directory? Even just making it a dotfile would work for me.

In your demonstration video, you use two different rulers to check the margins of a webpage element.

If Linear's rulers had ruler marks (the little lines that are usually on rulers):

and/or Linear's rulers had draggable guides (much like the guides you can drag out from rulers in Photoshop), then you could easily check the margins of an element with only one ruler.

For example, in the image below, I have shown draggable guides (in red) that show the guide's position (in px, relative to the edge of the ruler that the guide was dragged from), which can easily tell me that the web page element I am measuring is 10 pixels away from each of the ruler's edges:

Each guide would have a key piece of data attached to it: The distance (in px or em) from the ruler edge it was dragged from.

Adding draggable guides could turn this into a powerful tool for analyzing/troubleshooting the layout of webpages, and element the need to duplicate the rulers for checking balance.

Imagine a scenario where you want to check all the margins of an element (top, bottom, left and right). You can either try to manage 4 rulers on the page (being careful not to accidentally change the width or height of any of them), or manage one ruler instance with 4 guides. One ruler with 4 guides would be a lot easier!

Hi,

first of all thanks for this awesome electron app. It works like a charm is is damn useful.

I spotted a little visual glitch with the fonts in the settings dialog:

Reason ▶️ settings.css:

body {
    font-family: "Open Sans";
    padding-left: 1em;
}

So I would say it needs a proper font stack or you have to include the webfonts. Cant you reference the ones within /src/assets/fonts/?

I could try to create a PR tonight …

When viewing this ruler across multiple screens on multiple machines, I find that occasionally the rulers are hard to see/read.

Here is a screenshot I took from one of my computer screens (ruler width and height down in the bottom left corner are very difficult to see):

When I switch to "dark mode", I still have readability issues when there are situations that cause "dark on dark", for example, notice how the width value is now completely unreadable in the bottom left corner of the ruler):

I propose that the ruler data (and the ruler lines) get drawn with contrasting lines (double lines with a dark and light lines) so that the styles readably-universal to dark or light situations, or the ruler lines and text data get a subtle but effective background color (or drop shadow?) to help offset the ruler text from the browser or screen text. Something like the image below would make a big difference in universal readability (using the same screenshot example as above, notice how much easier it is to read the width value in the bottom left corner):

Hi there,

The following link for osx app download does not work:
https://github.com/mikaa123/linear/releases/download/1.0.0/linear-darwin-x64.zip

Seems the update to Electron v1+ has changed some behaviors in the Chromeless window, and now the rulers are able to resize themselves to negative widths and heights:

Before the update, the rulers would lock themselves out at a width/height of 0,0, and not the rulers get smaller than that.

Hi,

I would like to suggest a feature - vertically-centered ruler. When we click for that ruler from the menu bar OR from keyboard shortcut, we get a straight line at the middle of our browser window.

This is just a straight line. Not like the current ruler where it's square in shape.

Love this app! ❤️

Upgrading Electron to 1.2.2 caused problems (#32 #33). We might find more as we go along. Yet it also brings a fair share of new APIs. My hope is that it makes frameless transparent windows work on other systems than MacOS. We'll have to check that :)

In the meantime, let's make this ticket the meta-ticket for any regressions caused by the migration.

In the readme.md, it says:

Uses px or em values; set the default font-size to your convenience.

It's the "set the default font-size to your convenience" part that I am wondering about...

The settings menu has an option for setting the Font Size, but:

1. The font-size option in the settings doesn't appear to do anything; and
2. The font-sized entered into the settings window isn't saved into the settings.json file, and
3. The font-size entered into the settings window is not reloaded or remembered after the settings window is closed and reopened.

So should this feature be removed, and we can let the the users override the font size in their own custom theme(s)?

Reported on Homebrew/homebrew-cask#21909. I can reproduce as well. As soon as I open Linear, it immediately closes. Console output:

13/06/16 12:36:21,639   launchservicesd[78] SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
13/06/16 12:36:21,642   launchservicesd[78] SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
13/06/16 12:36:21,646   launchservicesd[78] SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
13/06/16 12:36:21,698   appleeventsd[51]    SecTaskLoadEntitlements failed error=22
13/06/16 12:36:21,731   linear Helper[63516]    GVA info: preferred scaler idx 0
13/06/16 12:36:21,767   com.apple.xpc.launchd[1]    (com.electron.linear.270752[63515]) Service exited with abnormal code: 1

OS X 10.11.5 (15F34)

Since linear exists on the tray bar, no need to have it appear in the dock too.

Ever since the upgrade to Electron version 1.2.2, there are randomly-sized rectangles appearing in the background of the ruler windows (notice the darker region in the lower left of the ruler window):

Hi, was taking a look and noticed a problem with these lines.

ruler = undefined;
rulers.splice(rulers.indexOf(ruler), 1);

Should be:

rulers.splice(rulers.indexOf(ruler), 1);
ruler = undefined;

Regards

Hello @mikaa123,

it would be nice if the overflow scrolling of a ruler is disabled.

(Pull request incoming ;))

Best regards,
Steffen

1.3.0 claims to be version '0.35.4'
1.4.1 claims to be version '1.2.2'

The new "Apply theme to all open rulers" button in the settings menu DOES work, but for some reason the visual changes to the ruler are only updated (repainted) after you mouseover or focus the ruler window. Occasionally the change happens without mouseover or repaint, but this is rare.

Is anyone else having this problem, or is it just me?

Just putting this here 🎲

Line 25 on the help.html page introduces an unclosed <span> tag.

That's all that I have in installe app

How it should work?

OS X 10.11.1

In my latest PR #17, I cleaned up a lot of code inconsistencies (mostly just spaces and tabs), to make things a bit more uniform, but I propose that a linter be added to the devDependencies, so that developers working on new features or pull requests can all adhere to the same coding style.

The best tool I have seen for this is XO, which is super simple to use. Just install it with:

npm install --save-dev xo

and then add this to your package.json:

"scripts": {
  "test": "xo"
}

That's all you need to get linting support, but you can take it a step further and get Travis to run your linting on all Pull Requests that get submitted (highly recommended) by adding a .travis.yml file with:

language: node_js
node_js:
  - 'stable'

and then whenever a new pull request (from any user) has been submitted, Travis will run the linting, and will report that the PR is not ready to be merged until the linting issues have been fixed.

Its a beautiful thing! 😄

Hi,

The latest v1.4.1 is crashing everytime I launched it.
This is just FYI.

I'm on OSX 10.12.6.

Thank you.

We've all got different needs and screens, and since this tool is for web developers, we should let web developers hack the themes to their convenience.

this is surprisingly useful, thanks in advance

Unable to install linear using homebrew.

$ brew cask install linear

Error: Cask 'linear' definition is invalid: Bad header line: parse failed

At first, thank you for the useful tool!

Could you please make selectable on the settings window, which color is prefered? Most of time I need black lines and have to switch the color, whenever I use Linear.

Thanks!