[Bug 40090] Window frame icon missing with MacDriver

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40090

Ken Thomases <ken at codeweavers.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Ken Thomases <ken at codeweavers.com> ---
This was a deliberate decision.  I seem to recall that, at the time, the Human
Interface Guidelines strongly discouraged the use of the document proxy icon in
a window's title bar for anything other than, well, a proxy for a document that
the window was presenting.  The documentation has been overhauled and I can no
longer find that, but I think the rationale is still sound.

The icon only shows up if you assign a URL of a document that the window is
supposed to represent to the window.  If you assign a URL, the window shows a
pop-up menu for the path of the URL when you Control-click, Command-click, or
right-click on the title.  Also, the icon is draggable.  The intent is to let
the user drag the document file someplace, just as if he were dragging it from
the Finder.  There are delegate methods to suppress some of this behavior, but
even with those implemented the icon still highlights briefly when you try to
drag it.

In general, it's just a poor user experience.  Mac users will expect that icon
to represent a document, not the app.  I don't think you'll find many other Mac
apps which put an icon in their windows other than for documents.


If you want to turn off Mac window decorations when using the Mac driver, you
can do that.  Unlike with the X11 driver, it's not as simple as a switch in
winecfg.  You have to set a registry setting using regedit:

[HCKU\Software\Wine\Mac Driver]
"Decorated"="n"

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