Re: making an installed application run at startup
Re: making an installed application run at startup
- Subject: Re: making an installed application run at startup
- From: Jason Proctor <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:50:28 -0800
in the installer project i'm looking at, there are two items which
are both applications installed into /Applications. i would check
the box for one of them and not the other.
i'm just being flippant about the one checkbox thing, but IMHO this
would be a good area for the Installer to help out. some applications
can legitimately need to start at login, and all the solutions
proposed here have drawbacks - from messing up a previously good
loginwindow.plist, to having something start at launch for a user who
didn't install the application.
At 4:42 PM -0800 1/13/09, Greg Neagle wrote:
How would PackageMaker know which executable to launch at login from
a simple checkbox? Your installer could install several executable
items.
I agree that PackageMaker could help, but I'm not convinced it would
be and easy addition to PackageMaker, or that Apple should encourage
developers to easily add things to the LoginItems. I have enough
things launching at login that I didn't ask for...
-Greg
On Jan 13, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Jason Proctor wrote:
all this could have been avoided by a checkbox in PackageMaker.
then the Installer could ask the user whether it's OK to do it,
etc. this is a simple requirement that has been massively
overcomplicated -- IMHO.
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