Hi,
As many of us have been codebook/strip users for decades and Zetetic isn’t interested in a Linux port, is there any way Zetetic could work with the Wine team or at the very least provide a comprehensive set of instructions for installing under Wine?
I really really really don’t want to migrate all my accounts to something like Bitwarden. There is nothing wrong with Bitwarden, but I’m not interested in having all my eggs in their basket. Codebook has served my needs for a very long time, but Microsoft and Apple stopped being interested in personal computers a long time ago.
Thanks for listening.
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Hi @dbertagni,
Thanks for reaching out, we always appreciate hearing from long-time customers! To clarify, it’s not that Zetetic doesn’t have an interest in supporting Codebook on Linux, but rather that the volume of interest is much smaller than our other supported platforms. As a small company, we have to be mindful about what we decide to work on as that impacts our ability to work on different features. Developing and supporting a new platform for the long term is a rather large undertaking. We are continually monitoring the interest in supporting Linux. If enough interest is expressed from the community, we may reconsider our position.
Unfortunately, we do not have experience with the Wine compatibility toolkit so I cannot comment on what would be necessary to support such an endeavor. If I may ask, what Linux distribution do you currently use?
I’m another long-time Codebook user, from back in the PalmOS days, still using and enjoying your products.
I’ve also switched over to Linux for my desktop computer, and find it frustrating to have to pull out my phone to look up passwords, and since they are all randomly-generated strings, it is cumbersome to type them in manually. But I do it, because it’s secure.
I’m using Linux Mint, which is an Ubuntu derivative, which is a Debian derivative. If you supported Debian as a base, you’d find a large number of offshoot distributions would end up being supported by your efforts, I’m sure.
I don’t think there’s anything special you’d need to do with WINE, since it is basically a translation layer pretending to the WIN32 kernel to an app running in Linux, thinking it’s running in Windows. The main things you would have to look into are reasons why your app might fail when making certain OS calls, or why your installer might not run correctly during the installation process. I imagine if you just corrected one or two things, the app would largely work unchanged.
But I’m not a Windows (or Linux) developer, so it’s hard for me to estimate how much work it would be to get CodeBook running under WINE.
It could well be that a version of CodeBook that just had a couple of features disabled (such as the feature that auto-types your password into other apps), you’d find that just an app that lets you view/edit passwords and copy/paste them via the clipboard would work quite well. It would be a good start, and helpful to us Linux users.
We appreciate that you continue to listen to our ideas. Thanks for considering.