[GNC] Dock Icon on Mac

[Glen Byram (Gmail)]

Nope I don't do that. The only time I ever even open the .dmg file is when I download an update. I then drag the 2 Apps to the Applications folder overwriting the existing ones. TBH I have never used the Finance Quote Update app but copy it anyway.

My dock works fine too - with every single other app in the Applications folder (and Utilities and elsewhere).
When I have the 2 icons up at once, 1 active and 1 inactive, if I right click on them and do "Options->Show in Finder", in each case it points correctly to Gnucash in Applications.

The only other thing I have considered is that I open the App with a data file active (my personal finances). Could it be something to do with the location of that data file?

Cheers,
Glen


On 13/06/2018, 12:56, "gnucash-user on behalf of David T. via gnucash-user" <gnucash-user-bounces+glen83501=gmail.com at gnucash.org on behalf of gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:

    My dock works, and has worked for a decade. Perhaps you are using GnuCash from two places: Applications, and the dmg? I say this because the “?” could happen after restart if the dock item were linked to a dmg file, and the dmg weren’t reloaded on restart. 
    
    Similarly, a second dock item would suggest a second executable in a different location—although how the dock item could reference a different executable is beyond me. 
    
    David T.
    
    > On Jun 13, 2018, at 5:56 AM, Glen Byram via gnucash-user <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
    > 
    > I am running macOS Sierra 10.12.6
    > 
    > I cannot get Gnucash to reside in the mac dock like other apps. I may have reported this issue before but I can’t find anything in gnucash-user and whatever solution I thought I had was only temporary.
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > 1)  The normal process for placing an app into the dock permanently is to just drag it from the place it is installed (usually the Applications folder) to a position on the dock that you want.
    > 
    > Once this is done, you should be able to launch the app from the resulting dock icon. The same icon should bounce as it launches, then stop with a dot under the icon to show it is active.
    > 
    > The behaviour I see is that a duplicate Gnucash icon appears at the end of the dock and it is this one that bounces/indicates active app. Although functionally OK, I don’t want 2 icons for the same app when its running one instance.
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > 2) I have tried the alternate method of keeping Gnucash in the dock; Make sure there are no Gnucash dock icons then launch it directly from the Applications folder. Once launched, right click on the active dock icon and select Options->Keep in dock. After that, I can move the icon to the position in the dock I want it to be. It now appears to work perfectly. Unfortunately, after I log out, or after some periods of sleep (not sure on the number-seems random) the Gnucash icon gets overlayed with a question mark indicating that the location of the app is now unknown – even though it has not changed and is still in the Applications folder. If I restart the machine when the Gnucash icon is working as expected, I get a grey question mark in the dock without even the Gnucash icon. Mousing over the grey question mark gives a Gnucash tooltip but of course it won’t launch as the location of Gnucash is unknown. The only option is to right click on the icon+question mark or question mark (by itself) and select Options->Remove from Dock.
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > As far as I can tell Gnucash is the only App I have that exhibits this behaviour. At the start, I thought I had fixed it using method 2 above. Then after several days the dreaded question mark appeared over the icon.
    > 
    > Other things I have tried include making an Alias for Gnucash and dragging that to the dock. It didn’t work and behaved like 1) above (duplicate app icon on launch).
    > 
    > I decided maybe the dock was corrupt so I did a reset to default: Terminal command; “defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock”
    > 
    > This meant I had to rebuild my preferred dock from scratch. There was no difference. All other app icons behaved as expected apart from Gnucash.
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > My conclusion is that Gnucash must have a launch process different to other apps and/or the drag/drop to dock processing must be different.
    > 
    > For the time being I tend to stick to Option 2 above as I prefer a single launch icon on the dock. When Gnucash eventually gets it’s inevitable question mark I remove it from dock then re-instate it as per 2) above. But it would be nice to have no need to do that. It’s not urgent or a matter of life and death but something to ponder.
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > Cheers
    > 
    > Glen
    > 
    > 
    > 
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