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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Gentoo and Mac bundles
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:04:52
Message-Id: 20110206120429.GC17190@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Gentoo and Mac bundles by Konstantin Tokarev
1 On 10-12-2010 22:07:11 +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
2 > I've found that GUI application coming with Qt (Designer, Assistant, Linguist; Qt Creator is also affected)
3 > are installed in non-bundled form. This introduces user experience issue - icon is not shown in the dock.
4 > "Normal" Qt build on Mac OS outside prefix produces bundled apps.
5
6 You mean by "bundled" that it is installed in a .app directory
7 structure, right?
8
9 > Is this behavior intentional? Note that this application are not supposed to be used from command line.
10
11 I think it is intentional to at least provide a symlink (or wrapper that
12 calls open /path/too/My.app) in usr/bin to the app like it would be
13 available on Linux, but there is nothing against building the bundles if
14 that actually makes it work right.
15
16 > Also I suppose missing bundle may be a reason for corruption of Assistant GUI (displaced toolbar) which
17 > does not happen when Qt is build outside prefix
18
19 This may be very well indeed the problem. If you have ideas on how to
20 improve them, please share them.
21
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23 --
24 Fabian Groffen
25 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] Gentoo and Mac bundles Konstantin Tokarev <annulen@××××××.ru>