[Pythonmac-SIG] Banishing MacPython Dock Icon
Bob Ippolito
bob at redivi.com
Sat Feb 26 20:25:28 CET 2005
On Feb 26, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Nick Matsakis wrote:
> One of the negatives of running appscripts to script apps is that
> MacPython icon appearing in the dock. Not only is it useless, since
> you
> can't interact with the app skeleton with the GUI, but it also slows
> the
> launch of scripts.
It's only useless if the script you're running doesn't use it..
> I've managed to banish that icon by editing the Info.plist file of the
> Resources/Python.app/Contents folder of the Python framework. All I
> did
> was add the key LSUIElement with integer value 1, and the icon has been
> banished and appscript still works. This is great, but am I doing
> myself
> any disservice by doing that? What is that app used for, besides
> appscript?
It's definitely a disservice. It is used any time that pythonw is
used. If you set LSUIElement to 1, then you can't run applications
with a menu bar from pythonw. wxPython, pygame, Tkinter, Carbon, etc.
scripts should all have a problem with this.
If you want a faceless background application, run py2app over the
script and set the LSUIElement key to 1 in that.
> By the way, what is the history of that icon? Why is it a 16 ton
> weight?
> Is there a chance it could look less ... classic ... in a future
> version
> of Mac Python?
The weight as a reference to Monty Python. I had a friend of mine do a
more modern icon, but it was too snake-like for some people on the
list: <http://pythonmac.org/img/py_mac-sq-64.png> (I have a higher
resolution version, but I'd have to dig it up).
-bob
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