Make apostrophe.in runable without installation

README.md

@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ You can run Apostrophe with `./apostrophe.in` without installing it in the syste
 but you'll need to install and compile the schemas before:
 
 ```bash
-# sudo cp data/de.wolfvollprecht.UberWriter.gschema.xml /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/de.wolfvollprecht.UberWriter.gschema.xml
-# sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
+$ ./data/gen.sh
 ```
 
 ### Building a flatpak package

apostrophe.in

@@ -56,7 +56,10 @@ locale.bindtextdomain('apostrophe', localedir)
 gettext.textdomain('apostrophe')
 gettext.bindtextdomain('apostrophe', localedir)
 
-resource = Gio.resource_load(os.path.join(pkgdatadir, 'apostrophe/apostrophe.gresource'))
+if pkgdatadir != '@DATA_DIR@':
+    resource = Gio.resource_load(os.path.join(pkgdatadir, 'apostrophe/apostrophe.gresource'))
+else:
+    resource = Gio.resource_load(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'data', 'apostrophe.gresource'))
 Gio.Resource._register(resource)
 
 

data/.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+/About.ui
+/apostrophe.gresource

data/gen.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env bash
+
+cd "$(dirname "$0")" &&
+cp -fv "ui/About.ui.in" "About.ui" &&
+glib-compile-resources "apostrophe.gresource.xml"