fix: auto-updater not working in AppImage

Fixes #753

src/App/Containers/SettingsContainer.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { ipcRenderer } from "electron"
 import { connect } from "react-redux"
 import { fromJust, isJust, Maybe } from "../../Data/Maybe"
 import { ReduxDispatch } from "../Actions/Actions"
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ import { Locale, Theme } from "../Models/Config"
 import { getUserSelectableSupportedLanguages } from "../Selectors/localeSelectors"
 import { getFallbackLocaleId, getFallbackLocaleType, getLocaleId, getLocaleType } from "../Selectors/stateSelectors"
 import { areAnimationsEnabled, getIsEditingHeroAfterCreationPhaseEnabled, getTheme } from "../Selectors/uisettingsSelectors"
-import { isUpdaterEnabled } from "../Utilities/CheckForUpdatesRenderer"
+import { IPCChannels } from "../Utilities/IPCChannels"
 import { Settings, SettingsDispatchProps, SettingsOwnProps, SettingsStateProps } from "../Views/Settings/Settings"
 
 const mapStateToProps = (state: AppStateRecord): SettingsStateProps => ({
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ const mapStateToProps = (state: AppStateRecord): SettingsStateProps => ({
   areAnimationsEnabled: areAnimationsEnabled (state),
   theme: getTheme (state),
   languages: getUserSelectableSupportedLanguages (state),
-  isCheckForUpdatesDisabled: !isUpdaterEnabled (),
+  isCheckForUpdatesDisabled: !(ipcRenderer.sendSync (IPCChannels.IsUpdaterEnabled) as boolean),
 })
 
 const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch: ReduxDispatch): SettingsDispatchProps => ({

src/App/Utilities/IPCChannels.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export enum IPCChannels {
+  IsUpdaterEnabled = "isUpdaterEnabled"
+}

src/main.ts

@@ -4,16 +4,30 @@ import * as log from "electron-log"
 import { autoUpdater, CancellationToken, UpdateInfo } from "electron-updater"
 import windowStateKeeper from "electron-window-state"
 import { promises } from "fs"
+import { platform } from "os"
 import * as path from "path"
 import { prerelease } from "semver"
 import * as url from "url"
-import { isUpdaterEnabled } from "./App/Utilities/CheckForUpdatesMain"
+import { IPCChannels } from "./App/Utilities/IPCChannels"
 import { existsFile } from "./System/IO"
 
 remote.initialize ()
 
 app.setAppUserModelId ("lukasobermann.optolith")
 
+const isUpdaterEnabled = (() => {
+  switch (platform ()) {
+    case "darwin":
+      return false
+    default:
+      return autoUpdater.isUpdaterActive ()
+  }
+}) ()
+
+ipcMain.on (IPCChannels.IsUpdaterEnabled, event => {
+  event.returnValue = isUpdaterEnabled
+})
+
 const setDerivedUserDataPath = async () => {
   const isPrerelease = prerelease (app.getVersion ()) !== null
 
@@ -90,7 +104,7 @@ const createWindow = async () => {
     ipcMain.addListener ("loading-done", () => {
       let cancellationToken: CancellationToken | undefined = undefined
 
-      if (isUpdaterEnabled ()) {
+      if (isUpdaterEnabled) {
         console.log ("main: Updater is enabled, check for updates ...")
 
         autoUpdater