[Bug 34473] Launch animation for the Dock

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34473

Ken Thomases <ken at codeweavers.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |ken at codeweavers.com
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #1 from Ken Thomases <ken at codeweavers.com> 2013-09-08 14:21:51 CDT ---
I assume you mean that it bounces in the Dock.

Wine doesn't really have control over that.

As you note, Wineskin is based on XQuartz. It serves as the X server. From the
time it is launched, it is expected that it will have a presence in the Mac
GUI. So, the process starts life as a GUI application. That's what causes it to
bounce in the Dock.

By contrast, all Wine processes start as background processes. Not all of them
load the Mac driver. Even of the ones that do load the Mac driver, not all will
show a window and therefore appear in the Dock. So, many Wine processes never
appear in the Dock. Those that do show a window transform themselves into
foreground GUI applications but, since they were already running at the time,
the Dock does not show the bounce animation.

The only way we could cause the bounce of the Dock icon would be for every Wine
process to start life as a GUI process, even if it were never going to show a
window. That would not be desirable.

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