Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Should Python.app be an LSUIElement = 1 app?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 2 Feb, 2009, at 17:58, Bill Janssen 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".  Here's the doc from Apple:


the application as an agent application. Agent applications do not

run as background applications, they can come to the foreground to

agent application brings that application forward to handle events.The
Dock and loginwindow are two applications that run as agent
applications.''

It seems to me that this is what we want for the Python interpreter

a dock icon for themselves.

``LSUIElement (String). If this key is set to '1', Launch Services runs appear in the Dock or in the Force Quit window. Although they typically present a user interface if desired. A click on a window belonging to an proper. Applications (like IDLE) that are indeed proper foreground apps can always call TransformProcessType() to override this setting and get

Ronald

I don't agree. Python.app is as it is to make it possible to run simple GUI scripts from the command-line, if I understand the LSUIElement document correctly the setting you propose would make it impossible to use "python sometkscript.py" to run a simple GUI script. IMHO the best way to get rid of the Rocket icon is to investigate what causes the icon to appear and to look for workarounds for that. The icon should only occur when the application (e.g. python script) communicates with the window server.

Bill
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