[macOS] Working Tauri port proposal

[FVTVLIX]

Hi Deepender,

I have been building a working macOS port of Edge-Drop using Tauri, Rust, React, TypeScript, Zustand, and native AppKit integrations.

The current prototype, displayed on macOS as Edge Drop, supports:

• hover-activated transparent edge panel and menu bar integration;
• clipboard capture for plain text, URLs, rich HTML, images, files, and folders;
• native drag-in and drag-out;
• native macOS clipboard writes for images and Finder file references;
• image and file stacks with grouping, merging, expansion, individual-member copy/drag, and ungrouping;
• pinning, search, guarded deletion, deduplication, self-copy suppression, sensitive-format filtering, and incognito mode; and
• adjustable edge behavior, sizing, appearance, history, and drag-preview settings.

The frontend production build passes, and the Rust suite currently has 13 passing tests covering clipboard detection, native pasteboard formats, duplicate prevention, drag previews, folders, stacks, merging, splitting, and settings validation.

Repository: https://github.com/FVTVLIX/edge-drop-macos

I have tried to preserve Edge-Drop's core workflow and visual direction while replacing Windows-specific Electron and Win32 behavior with Tauri, Rust, AppKit, and macOS equivalents. The repository is Apache-2.0 licensed, attributes the original project, and is clearly labeled as an unofficial port.

Before attempting a very large pull request, I would appreciate your guidance on how you would prefer this work to be organized:

1. as an official companion macOS repository;
2. inside Edge-Drop as a macOS/Tauri application;
3. as smaller reusable contributions submitted incrementally; or
4. as a separately maintained community port linked from the upstream documentation.

I would also appreciate your guidance on use of the Edge-Drop name and visual assets for a macOS release.

I am happy to provide a short recording, architecture notes, a feature-parity checklist, or a test build. Thank you for creating Edge-Drop and for explicitly welcoming macOS porting contributions.

[Deepender25]

@FVTVLIX thanks for this I am little busy I will respond back soon

[Deepender25]

@FVTVLIX Hey Sorry for the delay
I really appreciate your work and its really good and i am thinking for a tauri port too.
But the thing is that i do not have access to mac os right know and i do not want to put the mac os version directly to this repository in current scenario as can not test it and even if i release it and your port is working in future i won't be able to add new thing to the mac versions directly and two versions of the app and on is they are different in feature set is not what i hope for.
and i if there is a bug i can not recreate test is or literally do any thing.
so i won't be able to accept your proposal as of now but i really appreciate your work and dedication and if in future i get access to a mac i will be reaching out to you for the help and collaboration .
and for the name edge drop there are issue around this as there is a feature of the microsoft browser edge's feature drop .
and i do not want to constrain you at all for the visual assets i would like to see what you came up with i feel visual design is something that comes form the heard and something that feels home to you and as this project is open source there is no need to ask for the code part use as this is the sole reason of open source.
for the name user i would not suggest you using edge drop as if you go and search right now it is cluttered with the edge browser's drop feature i think you should use some name that feel good to you after some research.

and the main thing is this app is still in its early stage and i first want to build a stable state where user do not need any thing extra for some while and after a stable build i want to focus on tauri porting and some other projects as i am a student in final year om by B.Tech i want to explore things.
if you have noticed the starting 4 to 5 versions very fast and now it has slow down and i am at a stage where i am just refining things as much as i can.
by the way thanks for reaching out i would love to see what you came up with.
thanks again for the support.
If you want to connect you can reach me at my instagram maybe @itsadi.art and drop a msg if you want.

[FVTVLIX]

Hey @Deepender25 thanks for your response! I completely understand the concerns about maintaining and testing a macos version without access to a mac.

Just to be clear, i'm not looking for credit or ownership for this project. This is your project, and I want the macos version to remain as faithful as possible to your Windows app's overall vision. My goal is to contribute a native macos implementation and help make it available to more users.

I'll keep maintaining it seperately for now, use a different name as you suggested, and make the relationship to the original project clear. If you ever get access to a mac later or decide to look into a Tauri/macos direction, I'd be happy to collaborate and help bring the implementations closer together.

If you would like to see the current version, i'd be glad to show you what is implemented so far. Any kind of feedback on it would be great and if it feels true to the original.

Good luck with the stabilization work and your final year! Thank you again for building and open-sourcing Edge-Drop!

[Deepender25]

@FVTVLIX thanks a lot for your kind words and i have plans of buying a macbook but not right now and i will work on the mac version when i get one and i will be reaching out to you to help me understand the macos working and i will be happy to provide any kind of feedback or suggestion you would like and if you can and want to share some screen recordings on my email maybe "yadavdeepender65@gmail.com" i would be happy to provide my feedback.
thanks again