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

[Bill Janssen]

Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:

> > Whether we need to also upgrade the tutorials strikes me as a minor
> > matter.
> 
> You'd have to modify every tutorial out there, including books. That's  
> not
> really feaseable.

Python changes.  Tutorials need to keep changing.

> The right ways to fix the issue you're running into with appscript are
> 
> 1) Wrap your script into an .app bundle that includes the LSUIElement  
> setting (because appeartly you are writing an application that is an  
> agent-style application)
> 
> 2) Research why appscript causes the icon to appear on the dock. As  
> has noted it should be possible to avoid that because the  
> ScriptingBridge framework doesn't have this problem.
> 
> The second option would be the most useful for the community, but is  
> way harder than the first option.

Yes, both of those are good ideas.  But it's not just appscript; I'm
doing something else in a different program (that doesn't use appscript)
that also causes the rocket-in-the-dock problem.  This one is
particularly irritating, because it's a real daemon, and can't always
get through to the dock.

Bill