[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: MacPython icon mockup

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 25-apr-2006, at 19:09, Brendan Simons wrote:

> 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.

That's right. Python Launcher is an helper application for  
opening .py and .pyw with the plain old command-line python  
interpreter. The latter is not a real application bundle and can  
therefore not be associated with file extensions, hence Python Launcher.

>
> 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?

That's right. The Python.app in the framework contains the binary  
that will be started when you start pythonw (or python for that  
matter) from the terminal. This is the command-line python  
interpreter we all know and love, but stuffed inside an OSX  
application bundle. The application bundle is necessary to enable  
access to the window server.

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

That's because of (2)

>
> 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.

That icon will be replaced by the generic python application icon.

>
>
> 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.

You have some point there. I'm against haveing two different icons  
for applications. I'll experiment a little with the rocket and  
application icons to see which looks more natural.

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

They should match. If they don't match you have probably found a bug  
in the BuildApplet. My guess is that the applet is build in the wrong  
order and the finder sees the application bundle and extracts (and  
caches) its icon before the bundle contains the icon.

Ronald
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