[GNC] Dock Icon on Mac

[Glen Byram (Gmail)]

Yes, it certainly is annoying. As we speak, Gnucash has just got its grey question mark. The machine has been woken up for about the 10th time since I last did "Keep in Dock". No full restart in that time (I rarely do with the mac). No issue at all the previous 9 or so "wake-ups. I am starting to think that something is wrong with this specific Mac. I would definitely think that was the case if other apps had the same issue, but they all work fine.
Regards
Glen


On 14/06/2018, 15:07, "gnucash-user on behalf of Adrien Monteleone" <gnucash-user-bounces+glen83501=gmail.com at gnucash.org on behalf of adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

    I don’t think a second executable is the issue. I frequently see this problem with Firefox. Occasionally after it updates and re-launches, it will drop a new icon on the far right of my dock for that updated instance. I just close it and relaunch it as normal with the original icon. (which uses the updated instance, there is no older executable anywhere, even if I clicked that original icon while the other was still open.)
    
    I don’t have even a guess as to why this is happening though once GnuCash’s launcher is stored in the dock via right-click and ’keep in dock.’
    
    Regards,
    Adrien
    
    > On Jun 13, 2018, at 6:56 AM, David T. via gnucash-user <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.
    >> 
    >> 
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    >> 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.
    >> 
    >> 
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    >> 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.
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    >> 
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    >> 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.
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    >> 
    >> Cheers
    >> 
    >> Glen
    >> 
    >> 
    >> 
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