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Proper Mac app #12

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sevaa opened this issue Nov 5, 2020 · 2 comments
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Proper Mac app #12

sevaa opened this issue Nov 5, 2020 · 2 comments
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sevaa commented Nov 5, 2020 •
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On Mac, a GUI app belongs to the Applications folder. Right now, dwex is not there. Should it be? Upvote to agree.

https://github.com/davidfstr/Python-in-Mac-App-Store
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4940273/is-it-possible-to-deploy-a-python-application-on-the-mac-app-store
@sevaa sevaa added the enhancement New feature or request label Nov 9, 2020
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I tried to make a .dmg file, https://github.com/robberphex/dwex/releases/tag/2.30

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sevaa commented Feb 7, 2025

App bundles in ~/Application are supposed to be picked up by the system.

To create an app bundle from an ad hoc folder, see here. The key is the metadata item kMDItemContentTypeTree .

To manipulate metadata, either NSMetadataItem or mdls, xattr.

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