[Pythonmac-SIG] Should Python.app be an LSUIElement = 1 app?

[Christopher Barker]

Bill Janssen wrote:
> Setting LSBackgroundOnly doesn't prevent that, it just sets the default.

  I don't understand -- what default? just the behavior when the app 
starts, but then it can still open windows, etc?

>> when people are
>> testing an debugging GUI apps (TK, or wx, or....) they should be able
>> to start a simple script at the command line without any restrictions.
> 
> Sure, "open myapp.app". 

I meant without an app bundle -- just a raw python script.

 > But if you follow the conversation a bit
> further, I think we've found a place to enable that for _tkinter.

Does it require a change to _tkinter? If so, then all the GUI toolkits 
(OK, all three...) would have to be changed for this to work, which 
doesn't sound good.

-Chris



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