app portgroup bouncing icon weirdness …

[Eric Le Lay]

Le Fri, 16 Mar 2018 04:47:36 -0500,
Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> a écrit :

> On Mar 15, 2018, at 23:31, Kevin Reid wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:38 PM, Kenneth F. Cunningham wrote:  
> >> The dock icon on the ports I launch via the bash script generate
> >> via the app PG seem to never stop bouncing -- they bounce and
> >> bounce, until the application is finally quit, and then disappear.
> >> The app seems to work just fine. (I use these mainly for gtk2 and
> >> gtk3 apps with GUIs, like pan2 and calculate-gtk, and I use them
> >> with +x11 rather than +quartz).
> >> 
> >> Anyone have any insight into this bizarreness?  
> > 
> > Dock icons stop bouncing when, loosely speaking, the process starts
> > up its macOS-style event loop (and could then e.g. respond to quit
> > requests from the Dock). X11 apps never have that type of event
> > loop, so the bouncing will not stop.
> > 
> > The only fix I know of without modifying the programs is to use a
> > small shim process which either (1) "is a proper Mac app" (setting
> > up the event loop and perhaps doing niceties like converting macOS
> > quit events into signals) or (2) forks the real process and
> > immediately exits (which means the Dock icon also disappears).
> > 
> > (Disclaimer: I am more "power user" than "macOS developer" today
> > and my description may be inaccurate in the details.)  
> 
> Right. The app portgroup is intended for "proper Mac apps".
> 
> https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2011-August/015788.html
> 
> 

For gPodder +x11 [1], I've added an <LSUIElement> entry in Info.plist to
prevent an icon in the dock.
With +quartz, it uses the py27-gtk-osx-application library to behave like a proper Mac app.

[1] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/gnome/gpodder/Portfile#L88