[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

[Brendan Simons]

OK, I obviously need to learn a little about the
launch sequence of mac python files.  Here's what I've
discovered:

1) Double clicking a terminal-based python script from
finder launches PythonLauncher (soon to be a rocket
icon), then the terminal.

2) Running a wx.python script from TextWrangler using
#!/usr/bin/pythonw skips PythonLauncher, and leaves a
"Python" icon (just the 16 ton weight) in the dock
until I quit the wx.app.  Is this the "Python.app"
from the framework?

3) Double clicking a wx.python script from finder
launches PythonLauncher, then leaves the "Python" icon
in the dock as before

4) Dragging the wx.python script onto buildapplet
makes an application with the blank app icon.  Double
clicking this icon puts a -third- style of icon in the
dock (a 16 ton weight on a panel) with the same name
as my app.  

OK, so given this behaviour, I retract my earlier
reccomendation.  If the "Python.app" icon will be
staying in the dock while the app runs (cases 2, 3),
I'm -1 on the rocket, and +1 on the "applet" icon
we're not using yet.  

As for case 4, shouldn't the dock icon match the app
icon?

  Brendan
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Brendan Simons

--- Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On 25-apr-2006, at 15:15, Brendan Simons wrote:
> 
> > Oh,
> >
> > I thought that's what the Python Launcher did.  A
> > bouncing rocket in the dock is a pretty good cue
> that
> > Python is launching something.  So I'm +1 on using
> the
> > current Python Launcher icon
> >
> > If not that then (is the launcher actually used
> > otherwise?) I'm +0 on just the glassy logo.
> 
> I'm  going to use the rocket of the Python.app that
> is inside the  
> framework and will use the same icon for Python
> Launcher. The latter  
> is a tool that can be used to run python files by
> double-clicking on  
> them.
> 
> Ronald
> 
> 


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