MacOSX: The menu bar shows "Python" as the name of the application

[Lars Hoss]

On MacOSX the menu bar shows "Python" as the name of the application. However it should be "Bazaar Explorer". The problem is, however, that there is no easy solution for this. Because on MacOSX we need a so called Application Bundle for this. An app bundle is a self contained folder structure that contains all required files to run the application. It also contains a special XML file (Info.plist) that contains the name of application as shown in the menu bar. The advantage of an app bundle is that you can easily move around the application on your hardisk (please note that Finder won't show the folder but an application icon).

So the correct way on MacOSX would be a python plugin that tells Finder to start the app (app bundle). The good thing would be that we could pack everything needed to run bzr-explorer inside the app bundle (pyqt, bzr, plugins and so on). But it clearly needs a bit of work to set it up :)

Also see: http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/doc/index.html

[Gordon Tyler (doxxx)]

Related to bug 505692.

[Zearin (zearin)]

I'm all for this!

I would like to recommend the following folders for Preferences and Caches (respectively):

~/Library/Preferences/
~/Library/Caches/

In either location, preferences or caches can be stored in either a folder or a file. Most programs use the reverse-ICANN naming scheme. (That's something like org.bazaar-vcs.fileExtension, or org.bazaar-vcs/ for folders, etc.)

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

I think this should be done in Mac Installer, because explorer itself as upstream has not provided any Mac bundlles or installers.

[Alexander Belchenko (bialix)]

De-dupe it if you think my decision is wrong. But then please provide a patch to fix that, because I have no Mac and therefore unable to work on this.