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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 10, 2014, at 2:34 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, it might seem so but that’s IMHO not the whole story.
> 
> From an OSX perspective there currently is not “some apps”, it is just *one* application, the kicad launcher.
> Having the other (command-line) applications in the bundle is just a workaround and OSX doesn’t know anything about them from an application view.
> For this single application only one file extension with one icon is registered.
> On a clean machine I bet you won’t see more than an icon for .pro files.
> 
> If you see other icons for pcbnew, etc. file types at all then I guess this is just because you still have/had other versions on your machine (on my machine all icons are still correct, but I guess that’s only because I have an old version still installed). Further, OSX is obviously caching many things… so, often you might see still old things (try to edit Info.plist an application… for me this works reliably with the new content only when deleting the old application, renaming, or copying/moving it around).

What Bernhard is saying here is interesting. I regularly build Kicad on two machines -- my MacBook Pro and my iMac. Both run the same version of OS X and both have the same version of Xcode. Now I _think_ I've got the dependencies the same -- I believe this because Kicad builds completely on both. 

Now on the MacBook Pro I see the expected icon for just kicad.app (the project manager) and only for Project.pro files. For the other Kicad applications (eeschema, pcbnew) both the applications themselves and the associated files have the default "sheet" icon.

BUT ... on the iMac, with the same BZR (5173) version and all of that, I see all of the applications have their individual icons and the design files have the respective icons, too.

I just did a "make clean" and cmake and all of that on the iMac; when it's done I'll see what happened.

> 
> However, I am working on getting back shortcuts for the individual applications without duplicating all the libs and kifaces.
> With that, all icons should be right again.
> But, there is some more work to do to get it right when launching pcbnew individually or from launcher (e.g., config file locations which are currently dependent on binary/app name). 
> Those things were broken before, too...


I think the main (only?) use case for running pcbnew or eeschema separately (not launched from the Kicad project manager) is so you can get into the library editors. But yeah, if you're going to have separate applications for each, they should have proper icons and so too should the associated files. Otherwise, the users will just be confused.

-a