lilypond-user
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update


From: Garrett McGilvray
Subject: Re: frescobaldi macports broken after update
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:07:38 -0600

————————————-
On Feb 13, 2014, 6:54:10 AM, Davide Liessi <address@hidden> wrote:

Please try this to upgrade your installation (including py2app) and
reinstall frescobaldi(-devel):
sudo port selfupdate
sudo port upgrade outdated
sudo port uninstall active and name:frescobaldi
sudo port install frescobaldi # or frescobaldi-devel, as you prefer

Then please test Frescobaldi's behaviour and let me know:
> if you either
> - drag and drop a ly file (or any text file, for what is worth) over the icon of Frescobaldi in the Dock, or
> - right-click on a ly file and choose "Open with..." > "Frescobaldi ([version])", or
> - double-click on a ly file associated with Frescobaldi (to associate a file: right-click on the file, choose "Get Info" and choose "Frescobaldi ([version])" in the "Open with..." dropdown list),
> then Frescobaldi should start, if it is not already running, and open the file.

Best wishes.
Davide
————————————-

After updating and trying those steps (same thing happens for each):
Frescobaldi launches, and I see the splash screen.
Then when the flash screen goes away, there is nothing; no window open, not on any space. Even right-click on Frescobaldi in the dock and selecting “Show all windows” reveals nothing.
Then after waiting a while, I click on the Frescobaldi icon in the dock, which has the indicator light that says Frescobaldi is open, and a new window pops right up with the file I opened.



————————————-
2014-01-25 Tim McNamara <address@hidden>: 
> Also, there is a non-Mac-like behavior. Clicking the close button on the upper left hand corner of the document window quits the app. I realize that on some/most OSes this is normal behavior, but not Macs. FWIW. 

Reported as https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues/352. 
————————————-

Just my opinion, but I would not lose too much effort over this if it were me. Tim is right that it is a non-Mac-like behavior, but Apple itself has seemed to forgotten this. All of these 1st party programs quit just by clicking the close window button:
Notes, Contacts, System Preferences, App Store, Image Capture, Reminders, iPhoto

The “rhyme and reason,” if there is any, seems to be that all of those are single window programs, even the rather large program iPhoto. A few other programs that can have multiple windows behave differently. If you close the only window open, the program stays open long enough to go to the menu at the top of the screen to open a new window, but as soon as you click away to another program, that program quits. iTunes, Calendar, Pages, iBooks, and Maps all behave this way, to name a few. As Frescobaldi can have more than one window, I would think that it should be have like these. But then to mix things up, if you close the last remaining window of Safari and go away to another program, Safari stays open as long as it wants. 

Apple itself is confused, and no wonder new users get confused. I try to explain to Windows converts that closing the window does not close the program, but then there are oh-so-many exceptions.



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]