How to add Qalculate GTK/QT to dock & spotlight ?

[KaKi87]

Output of brew config

HOMEBREW_VERSION: 5.0.7-103-gb473452
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HOMEBREW_FORBID_PACKAGES_FROM_PATHS: set
HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 12
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Output of brew doctor

Your system is ready to brew.

Description of issue

Trying to add either Qalculate versions to the dock will make it open a terminal window before the GUI window appears, trying to close the terminal window will close the GUI window, and the dock icon is a terminal icon rather than the Qalculate icon.

Trying to search "qalculate", "qalculate-qt" and "qalculate-gtk" in Spotlight yields no results.

Thanks

[SMillerDev]

They are not apps so they don't show up in the dock or spotlight search.

[KaKi87]

How to make them ?

[KaKi87]

Using AI, I was able to find out that the brew install qalculate-qt command generates .app file that can be copied into Mac's Applications directory.

Here are the steps :

• (If not already done) Run brew install qalculate-qt ;
• Run open /usr/local/Cellar/qalculate-qt/*/ ;
• See the qalculate-qt item of type Application ;
• Run open /Applications ;
• Copy/paste the abovementioned item into the Applications directory ;
• You can now run qalculate-qt from Spotlight and pin it to the Dock.

Since the file exists, I just wonder why doesn't Brew do that by default like it does for any other app.

[gromgit]

Since the file exists, I just wonder why doesn't Brew do that by default like it does for any other app.

Because:

1. Homebrew doesn't write anything outside its root directory (/usr/local in your case) for formulae like qalculate-qt.
2. Even for casks, it's not done "by default" as you assert. The cask definition has to contain one or more app stanzas that specify each app to install from the downloads. If foobar.app exists in a cask download, but it's not mentioned in the cask definition, it's ignored during a brew install.

[KaKi87]

Okay, well then it would be nice to add a cask definition to the qalculate-qt package.

Thank you