Christopher Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: > Ned Deily wrote: > >> I'm thinking that the right thing to do about rocket-in-the-dock should > >> be to change the Info.plist of Python.app, to include the setting > >> "LSUIElement: 1". > > > > There's also LSBackgroundOnly. That might be even more appropriate. > > I doubt it -- the whole point of this mess was to allow apps full-on > desktop access.
Setting LSBackgroundOnly doesn't prevent that, it just sets the default. > Maybe we just need to return to the old python vs. pythonw > distinction, but with a different default -- have a python-no-gui > option. I don't believe we need to. > > ... setting it does have the side effect of making IDLE's menus > > disappear when launched from the command line (bin/idle). > > This is no OK -- it may be OK for IDLE itself, but when people are > testing an debugging GUI apps (TK, or wx, or....) they should be able > to start a simple script at the command line without any restrictions. Sure, "open myapp.app". But if you follow the conversation a bit further, I think we've found a place to enable that for _tkinter. Bill _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig