Re: Create / install to locations in the user folder with PackageMaker
Re: Create / install to locations in the user folder with PackageMaker
- Subject: Re: Create / install to locations in the user folder with PackageMaker
- From: Stéphane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 23:58:24 +0100
On vendredi, décembre 7, 2007, at 06:11 PM, Michael Watson wrote:
Please don't recommend putting icons in the user's Dock. This
discussion comes up on mailing lists frequently and always ends with
the same few points:
- There's no public API for it, which means you have to edit the Dock
plist, which is an implementation detail
Frankly, it's really not difficult to edit the plist with code or
scripts.
- It's arrogant of the developer
Hmm, tell this to the company selling iLife. Pomme encre or something
like this.
- It forces many users to remove the new icon they didn't put there
I agree.
What's in my Dock is my domain. Don't touch it.
Never heard of System Admin? Even your soul belongs to the System Admin
(you should really have paid attention to this paragraph in small
characters at the bottom of your contract).
While I agree that with home users, it is not a good idea to add items
to the Dock (I should probably go and confess myself one of these days
for accepting to do it in 2 programs), there are cases where you need
to do it. For instance, when I prepare demo machines for shows such as
Macworld or Apple Expo, I usually end up installing the applications
and then adding the applications to the Dock and an alias of the
applications on the Desktop. If I had some spare time, I would probably
create a custom version of the installer to do this for me. I assume
that somebody that wants to create a package for the CS3 suite may want
to be able to add the suite applications in the Dock during the
installation so that every student or artist can have access to the
same default configuration.
So, yes, YMMV.
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