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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