Re: Adding an icon to the dock
Re: Adding an icon to the dock
- Subject: Re: Adding an icon to the dock
- From: "Mark Munz" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 22:17:07 -0700
More importantly though is that even *if* iWork does it, that does not
make it right for you, nor does it make it user friendly. Apple can
get away with this, but most other folks can't.
While placing the icons on the dock may seem acceptable from a Windows
perspective, it is very non-Mac and as a user, it ticks me off that a
program would do something like that.
It's easy enough for users to put the app in their dock if they feel
it is important enough. But IMHO, it is arrogant for a company to
think it deserves to insert its icons into my dock automatically. It
also would make me suspect that the given program is likely to break
other guidelines. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth hearing about
it.
On 11/2/07, Colin Cornaby <email@hidden> wrote:
> I see what you mean. For some reason I thought you somehow meant you
> wanted to spawn another app icon or something.
>
> As the other poster mentioned, messing with the plist is the easiest
> way to do this. If you just generate a uuid, set the URL of the new
> item, and set the tile type you should be fine. Then restart the Dock.
>
> As the other poster said, the docks plist format is not guaranteed to
> stay the same, so writing the least information possible is the best
> way to reduce the possibility of breakage.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Nov 2, 2007, at 6:31 PM, Steve Israelson <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I am inclined to tell my client "No", in fact that is my current
> > answer.
> > If you just install iWork, you will know how it, well, works.
> >
> > On 2-Nov-07, at 6:27 PM, Colin Cornaby wrote:
> >
> >> Could you be a little more specific? I've never seen either
> >> application do this.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On Nov 2, 2007, at 6:00 PM, Steve Israelson <email@hidden>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> iWork does it, and so does Microsoft.
> >>>
> >>> On 2-Nov-07, at 5:27 PM, John Stiles wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Basically, you don't. The dock is the user's domain. If you could
> >>>> programatically add icons to the dock, everyone would do it, and
> >>>> your average user's dock would be a huge mess.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Steve Israelson wrote:
> >>>>> How do I add my application's icon to the doc programatically?
> >>>>>
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