app portgroup have x11 application not bounce indefinitely

[elelay (Eric Le Lay)]

(Following #39613)

There is an option that can be set in the Info.plist so that no dock icon is created for a graphical application:

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<string>1</string>

This is useful when building x11 gtk apps because they never signal the windowing system that they have launched and the associated icon keeps bouncing forever.

It would be nice to generate this into the plist depending on a boolean option of the app portgroup.

Otherwise I add following code in my Portfile:

    if {![variant_isset quartz]} {
        reinplace -E {s|(<string>APPL</string>)|\1 <key>LSUIElement</key><string>1</string>|} \
                 "${destroot}${applications_dir}/Quodlibet.app/Contents/Info.plist"
    }

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

I've seen some other individual portfiles set this, too, I forget which ones, though...

[cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)]

Cc Me!

[ctreleaven (Craig Treleaven)]

Cc Me!

[ctreleaven (Craig Treleaven)]

Proposal: extend app port group to add 'app.behaviour' . Default would be as now, 'agent' would add "<key>LSUIElement</key><string>1</string>" as above. Ref:

​https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/general/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/LaunchServicesKeys.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001431-108256

Other app.behaviour values could be added as/when needs identified. Should be transparent to existing use of the portgroup.

Incidentally, I think the reinplace should have a return between the plist elements, ala

reinplace -E {s|(<string>APPL</string>)|\1\r<key>LSUIElement</key><string>1</string>|} \
                 ${destroot}${applications_dir}/${app.name}/Contents/Info.plist

[elelay (Eric Le Lay)]

Replying to ctreleaven@…:

Proposal: extend app port group to add 'app.behaviour' . Default would be as now, 'agent' would add "<key>LSUIElement</key><string>1</string>" as above. Ref:

Looks good. I'm not going to do it at the moment, though.

Incidentally, I think the reinplace should have a return between the plist elements, ala

reinplace -E {s|(<string>APPL</string>)|\1\r<key>LSUIElement</key><string>1</string>|} \
                 ${destroot}${applications_dir}/${app.name}/Contents/Info.plist

Well, it's not necessary. The XML format doesn't care about carriage return.

[mojca (Mojca Miklavec)]

Cc Me!

[ken-cunningham-webuse]

In d5df001c5444d4a7003d6c914dae03429e8df134/macports-ports:

app PortGroup : add support for x11 applications

add a bash launch script option that does not pass
the -psn parameter, and that also sets PATH

add option to hide the dock icon (rather than have it
bounce continuously)

closes: #40110

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ctreleaven:

Proposal: extend app port group to add 'app.behaviour' . Default would be as now, 'agent' would add "<key>LSUIElement</key><string>1</string>" as above. Ref:

​https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/general/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/LaunchServicesKeys.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001431-108256

As far as I can tell from that reference, LSUIElement is supposed to be a Boolean, not a string.

[kencu (Ken)]

You could be right. I can confirm that the String reference works as written, however, on the several ports I tried it on.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The documentation says:

LSUIElement (Boolean - macOS) specifies whether the app runs as an agent app.

A survey of Info.plist files in /System on macOS Sierra shows most use a Boolean:

$ find /System -name Info.plist -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0 -n 1 /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print:LSUIElement' 2>/dev/null | sort | uniq -c
  37 1
   2 YES
 119 true

[kencu (Ken)]

Indeed. From Dock.app on 10.7.5:

	<key>LSUIElement</key>
	<true/>

I can change it to that. Good pickup. I'm too trusting, clearly :>